Fern Falls breaking through the snow
The photo album for today is from Susan's birthday back in March. We went to Friday's... and I guess when you tell them it's somebody's birthday, they come by all throughout dinner and tie balloons all over the person. Needless to say, anybody that knows Sue can imagine that she wasn't too keen with people trying to tie balloons to her arms and her head... She put a stop to that very quickly, but it sure was funny to watch her get ticked off!
I am going to keep track of the trails I hike this year. I had done it in 2003 but I can't remember how many gazillion miles I logged that year.
Today's Trail: Fern Falls, 6.6 miles round trip (trailhead was closed so added 1.6 miles to distance). Originally planned on hiking to Fern Lake but the weather kept changing from blue sky and fluffy white clouds, to total cloud cover and light rain, then nice again. There is still some snow along the trail when you get near the falls (and probably all the way to the Lake), but was firm enough that I didn't post-hole at all (which would have sucked, since I was wearing shorts!) By the time I returned to my car, the mountains were enclosed by clouds - good thing I turned around!
I had planned on doing this hike yesterday with Joe, but he forgot his hiking boots! GOSH! He's not a very good mountain man, ha ha! I gave him the grand tour of the Park and we did some hiking around Lumpy Ridge... where he found a dead elk, which was kindof neat in its own morbid way. Coincidentally, we were eating deep-fried ice cream at Ed's when the bartender introduced us to the guy right next to us... who owns the only official tree company in town, Mike's (and the guy's name was not Mike, but Adam... he just bought the company). It's a small world up here!
...Now, I'm talking to a few bikers here in the coffee shop about winter here - guess it's really really windy, but they ride every month of the year up here too. Don't really get snow accumulation either. It's great talking to locals! Don, Marcy and Steve. Need to remember that!
That's all for now, I've got my Sunday routine to follow - Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy tonite, pack up my stuff so I can head West again for the week, catch up on email, blah blah blah.
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