This week's hike was cold and windy. The temperature outside wasn't below zero or anything like that, but we just didn't expect to be thrown around by the wind as much as we were. It was probably a good 15 or 20 degrees outside, and about 10 or so degrees warmer by the time we got back to our cars.
I called Rob Sunday morning when we both agreed that hiking around beach pond would be our next adventure. We arrived at the Beach Pond parking lot at about 8:30. Sof & Rob arrive shortly afterwards.
We jumped out of our cars and into the wind. The gusts coming at us from off of the surface of the pond was bitter cold. Shocking in fact. We hurried to get our gear in place and almost ran up into the woods to get out of the gale. Once we were able to get a few trees and hills behind us, we warmed up a bit, but the cold stayed in our bones for quite some time. The trail was a little slippery and we walked on ice and snow most of the time, but it wasn't really that bad. Most of the snow was packed down pretty hard although we didn't see any tracks from other hikers until we did our loop-d-loop.
Considering the weather that we had to deal with, we all were surprised to see as many hikers out on the trail as we did this week. We saw more hikers this week than we have seen in about 2 months of hiking. Our first pair of hikers we saw were two woman with their dog, and they followed right behind us up until we did our loop-d-loop half-way into our hike. We actually were able to all take a group shot at one point. They had mentioned to us that they have been hiking all winter, and we compared notes while telling our story as well. Here is our group shot.
The next hiker we saw was, in Deb's words, "Very good looking." He was alone, listening to his iPod, while we said our greetings. Our last encounter was with a fairly large group of people who looked like they kept fairly active. They must have been a group of 7 or 8 or so, accompanied by their dog. Rob mentioned that one of the woman had a German accent.
We walked out of the woods, into the wind, and jumped into our cars where we drove to Ruby Tuesday's to have lunch. We actually skipped our lattes this week, and had hot chocolate back at home base instead.
Talk to everyone next week,
Joe
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