Please send help. My 30-year old body can’t handle the hike that we did yesterday! Yes, I always drag on Mondays but today it was even harder to get out of bed! My legs DO NOT appreciate the fact that I didn’t stretch them out after the hike either.
Overall, it shouldn’t have been that hard of a hike. The vertical was a little more than 800’ to the top of Mt. Norwottuck (in the Mt Holyoke range). The problem was that the state park didn’t have any maps when we arrived at the trailhead. No matter, we had an AMC map! However, the AMC map didn’t name all of the trails….and not all of the trails were marked. Fantastic. So we ended up on an unnamed mountain biking trail (whoops) and when we finally thought that we were back on the right path, we climbed to the summit on something that was definitely not a real trail! We didn’t see any markers, but could tell we were getting closer to the top, so even though it was all loose rocks from washouts, we continued up to the top.
We were REALLY proud of Fuzzy Britches. Back out west (when she was 20 pounds heavier) she would have been dragging for most of the hike. But yesterday? She was fantastic. Keeping up with CP, looking back to make sure I was okay when I fell behind (ha ha), etc. There was a pond at the beginning of the hike that she got to swim in so she was pretty happy puppy.
I’m really glad that we were able to do the hike. We had to constantly spray ourselves with Off because of the ridiculous amount of mosquitoes (the hike was through woods) and I found a tick on the towel used to dry off Fuzzy Britches (we will continue to do tick checks on her for the next few days or so), but it was a great workout! CP and I both agreed that we are going to have to do some more hiking/ working out before the first weekend in August. CP’s sister comes out and she wants to hike one of the presidents in NH (the White Mountains have a number of tall mountains named after different presidents) with us. Those will be a lot higher and harder so we have got to get into shape!!!
3 comments:
The great thing about hiking is you can totally take it at your own pace. And, of course, assuming you remember to stretch afterward, you can turn around and do it again the next day!
BTW, has fuzzy britches gotten the shot for Lyme Disease? We give SoMi one every year even though she's really not around ticks all that much!
You are so luckyto take advantage of the mountains to hike and that Fuzzy Briches was able to keep on.
enjoy your next few hikes!
I love hiking, especially here in CO, but that hike does not sound like my idea of a good time. Mosquitoes, no real trail, and loose rocks? No, no, no.
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