Did a 4.7 mile hike with my cycling group today. It's super warm out (50s), but the roads are slopped with melting snow from overnight rain, so no official ride. It was a nice hike, from Walden Pond, but across the street from the pond, so not where I was last weekend. I took the opportunity to buy my lifetime senior parking pass for the state parks, which I still hate doing, but after buying the national parks one, I am sort of over it.
This was totally in conservation land in the town of Lincoln, MA. I had been to the very beginning part, but the rest was all new. Due the melting snow, I was unsure about wearing my microspikes, but I did for 3/4 of the hike and although there was some clumping over snow and leaves in the cleats, they were useful in some spots. We got to a totally clear area and we wee near the end, so I took them off. Off ocurse, 2 seconds after that, we were back in the snow and I slipped, but it was a kind of down on one knee, barely and I sprung up, to the amazement of the people behind me. Embarrassing, but at least I wasn't splayed across the trail!
Getting up my motivation to do some work now.