I had my friend W down for the weekend and we both decided to take a hike up the Weathersfield Trail on Mt. Ascutney on Saturday. The hike was beautiful (if not a bit hazardous due to ice & bad traction in many places). Want a bit of an adventure??? Try hiking in 6-12 inches of fresh snow on a trail where some genius decided that the blazes should be WHITE!!! (I thought that blue was one of the most universal trail blaze colors???) We ended up having to pause every 50-100 feet in order to spot the next blaze... doing this against a backdrop of freshly fallen snow and searching for white blazes on trees which in some cases already had numerous whitish natural coloration from lichens & whatnot. It was a refreshing but slightly taxing hike... we never made it to the summit due to our slow rate of progress, it would likely have been nightfall by the time we made it back down. I don't mind getting lost in the woods in warmer weather (with camping gear in tow), but getting lost in the woods in sub-zero temperatures and with no appropriate overnight equipment is entirely a different matter.
A sampling of the terrain
White Blazes + White Trails = ???
A lovely natural ice sculpture in the 'Little' Cascade Falls Ravine
A perspective on the size of the ravine
W and I
My ever-so-delicious homemade soup, You are now pwned!!! I am teh soupmaster!!!
Harassing 'Spud', my roommate's cat (who is obviously so pleased to be lavished with such attention, hehee). Doesn't he look adorable in that silly sweater that she made him wear!!!?
3 comments:
You Shaved!! Hey, you didn't run a poll first with your readers if you could shave your beard off. Well, I never!
Great pics. Nothing like a winter hike followed by a big bowl of home made soup. Yes.
the cat's all like "ACK! Because the sweater isn't bad enough...now you're gonna SQUEEZE MY HEAD!!!"
*giggles*
Peterson, believe me I'm regretting it already, my face dang near froze on that hike... not to mention I've been mistaken for the opposite sex a couple of times by customers at work, lol.
Shelby, he puts on a good act but he loves every minute of it, if he's not being given some form of attention, he's at your feet screaming his head off. Interesting that my siamese mix is the quiet one but he's the one who sounds like a siamese ;-p.
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