10/12/01 - Hiked with Gwen. We were staying at the Zealand Falls Hut so we backpacked up to the hut the night before the summit. It was a quick hike, we started late in the day, and made it just in time for dinner. 
We put our stuff down in the bunk room, I snagged a bottom bunk (there's 3 levels of bunks). 
We hung out at the falls after watching the sun go down. 
There was a bachelorette party up there and they were getting high by the falls. Later on we were playing board games (Connect 4, Gwen won, big time) in the hut and talking to them. When we were going to bed (it was lights out and dark) I went to put the game away and spilled all the pieces all over the floor, which cracked us all up. It was funnier knowing they were high and that it was "quiet hours". I slept with ear plugs which was a great idea because there was 18 other people in the room. I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and the door was right next to somebody's head. 
I hit their pillow with the door. I wondered why they didn't put their head at the other end, away from the door. One of the girls who worked at the hut woke everyone up by playing "Dreaming My Dreams" by the Cranberries on her guitar. It was surreal for me because of the ear plugs, I wasn't sure if I was "dreaming" it or not. It was nice getting an early start the next day.
We left our packs at the hut, summited, then picked them back up on the way down.
