Hike

Its a peaceful day today here. At least inside.

Outside it is a hail storm. 

Saturday N. & I  took a hike. Have I mentioned yet our recent hiking endeavors? Maybe not.... Well, for my sons' birthday we got him us a hiking book of day trips around our area. We took the first one which was the Willoughby Trail. It was 1 mile. We werent prepared... LOL. Well, we made it but we were both tired. Although maybe mowing the lawn beforehand had something to do with that. Anyways, it was a great hike. We saw many different types of settings. Beautiful. So fast forward to last Saturday. We decided to take the Big Creek trail. This was 14 miles roundtrip to a lake. We tried for the first landmark which was a bridge at 1.3 miles and we never did get that far. We were deep into the woods and we kept thinking that however far we go in is how far we have to come back. LOL. It was fantastically beautiful. The path followed a river the whole way. We did have bear pepper spray with us as we totally respect those animals. To say the least. That is the only reason we ventured as far as we did. There were many hikers up the trail according to the parking lot so that also helped. I was anxious and nervous the whole hike. Bears are not my cup of tea and I was so afraid the whole time. I kept scaring the hell out of N . because every so often I would scream really loud and clap a whole bunch of times. It would startle him everytime as it is so quiet out there. But I felt we needed to make noise as to not surprise any animals. There were hikers galore. Two young men passed us going quickly to get there before dark. A family of 5 passed us coming down. It was a great hike. There are many more in the book and I will try to post about them. Here are a couple photos.

Signing off...T.