Hey, the Blue Mountains' Mt Solitary Loop  track is finally open! It's gonna be awesome! When I heard the news, my initial reaction was a casual, "Oh, that's great, enjoy!" thinking the 'they' referred to just about anyone else. The response was swift: "Well, you're  coming. That's why I'm telling you." What?  Me? Mt Solitary? Again? It was one of the toughest hikes I'd done last year, and I'd sworn to myself that once was enough . But, that time, the loop wasn't fully open;

"Really, no one? Only two of us are going to Mt Solitary?" That message popped up on our hiking group chat the night before Christmas...

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