Hope said "Come on lets go" then she walk up a trail toward the mountain and saw a plant on the side of the trail and tasted it. Hope spit it out because it burned her mouth but still accidentally swallowed some of it.
After another day they got to the base of Mount Hood. It was very rocky and every couple of minutes it would rumble and a hole bunch of rocks would fall. "Be very careful as we go thru here and watch the rocks above you. We wouldn't want anyone to get crushed by the falling rocks." Coffee Bean said.