the snow is all gone around here and now its all hiking and biking!
i have been up cardigan a few times with the 14" 'big boy' hand saw, tactfully avoiding the several large blow downs up high on the west ridge, south ridge, and a couple on skyland trail. sooner or later i will lug up the chain saw but this morning it was all about an early summit and my first barefoot outing.
a few MOC stalwarts had gone up the night before for a late fish fry and sleep over. i made a batch of muffins for a surprise breakfast and was bringing thinking i might be able to sneak in under a thick cloud cover and catch them still sleeping. it was definitely foggy and bare feet are pretty stealthy, but two of the four were already out of their sleeping bags having already taken a little walk-about around the tower!
when i topped over the rock they were using as a pillow, i heard some laughing and "it's koby, and he's barefoot." the only surprise was that it was five in the morning.
"when did you start hiking to get up here so early?"
"even earlier...i brought muffins!"
i ate one myself--they were tasty--and chatted a bit before heading down to 'stir the clivus'. it wasn't even 6:00 yet but i actually met a woman hiking up. i also took a couple of photo opportunity stops.
the FLF, frail-little-fellow as pam calls them, was out for its early morning crawl. the lady slipper wasn't strolling at all, but then slippers tend to stay pretty close to home.
it was a fine way to spend a couple hours "outside and playing!"
i have been up cardigan a few times with the 14" 'big boy' hand saw, tactfully avoiding the several large blow downs up high on the west ridge, south ridge, and a couple on skyland trail. sooner or later i will lug up the chain saw but this morning it was all about an early summit and my first barefoot outing.
a few MOC stalwarts had gone up the night before for a late fish fry and sleep over. i made a batch of muffins for a surprise breakfast and was bringing thinking i might be able to sneak in under a thick cloud cover and catch them still sleeping. it was definitely foggy and bare feet are pretty stealthy, but two of the four were already out of their sleeping bags having already taken a little walk-about around the tower!
when i topped over the rock they were using as a pillow, i heard some laughing and "it's koby, and he's barefoot." the only surprise was that it was five in the morning.
"when did you start hiking to get up here so early?"
"even earlier...i brought muffins!"
i ate one myself--they were tasty--and chatted a bit before heading down to 'stir the clivus'. it wasn't even 6:00 yet but i actually met a woman hiking up. i also took a couple of photo opportunity stops.
the FLF, frail-little-fellow as pam calls them, was out for its early morning crawl. the lady slipper wasn't strolling at all, but then slippers tend to stay pretty close to home.
it was a fine way to spend a couple hours "outside and playing!"
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