a couple of holiday hikes with friends!

the day: friday, november 26th--the day after thanksgiving, not cold enough to outright snow but close. of course a wet snow might not have been any more comfortable than the rain, but maybe it would have been prettier than the wet look we were all wearing at the end.

the adventure: since y2k, the day after thanksgiving has been reserved for MOC's after turkey trot--a hike along the AT trail from goose pond road to the top of dartmouth skiway. for a few years we would stash a vehicle at both ends, but at some point, we just started hiking back to the start--after a bit of a lunch. i don't know how far that makes the trip, but it seems a good distance.

the memories: it's always a crap shoot as to who will show up. even when i was teaching and would advertise more heavily, you never knew how many would show up. this year, with it raining, i was figuring on a pretty low turnout--but hopefully there would be more than last year's just pam and i. woot woot, there were!

notes: even up in the clouds--after "a bit of lunch" and for a passing, friendly midwesterner volunteering to snap a photo--we were smiling! colleen, koby, andrew, sawyer, pam, and patrick, all returning turkey trot alum.

for comparison, the rain did change to snow later on friday, making for absolutely lovely hiking on saturday. our dear friends billy and tracey stopped by on their holiday travels. after "a bit of a lunch" (a bigger bit than friday) we went up and around our 'local' town hill loop. billy and pam posed for tracey leaving the dooryard.

go outside and play!