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A Short Hike-GOG: A Perfect Game for Nature Lovers

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I headed along the west ridge of Mount Magog, quickly coming across a rock outcropping. Rather than drop left around it, I decided to stick to the crest (Class 2) and continued unencumbered for a while until the landscape became a bit fractured, a maze of weird landscape features. I had to drop in and out of a few gullies and avoid some rock outcrops, but somehow managed to keep the route pretty straightforward and found myself back on the Naomi Peak Trail. I followed the trail to a saddle and then took the short spur trail to reach Naomi Peak. More excellent views.


I started north along the ridgeline, where a social trail wrapped me around to the start of the ridge traverse to Bullen Peak Peak, but it faded away shortly after. I was in excellent spirits as the sweeping tundra around me was lit by morning light. Maybe I should start getting up earlier to enjoy more light like this. But like, probably not. Suddenly I came to a steep near-cliff, which surprised me since I sort of expected the ridgeline to be a no-brainer. Keeping mostly to the ridge crest, I descended loose Class 2, then side-hilled on more of the same. This section didn't last long, but it was totally out of character for the rest of the grassy traverse. After some more tundra walking, I made it to the summit of Bullen Hole Peak, which gave a really cool perspective toward Cherry Peak's sloped cliffs in the distance.




A Short Hike-GOG



You can find A Short Hike 99 on itch.io (opens in new tab), along with instructions on how to install it if you're using itch, GOG, or Epic. If you're on Steam, you can use the Betas function to switch to a branch called "ashorthike99_mod." To do that, right click on the game, go to "Properties," click "Betas" on the right hand side, and use the drop down menu to select the mod.


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