I guess all the recent New England snow must have gone north of you. Sorry, Crankin! Every night when I watch the national news, I see TONS of snow, but it's mostly out west and in the plains, I guess.
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Had a good and very challenging hike up Northfield Mt. Sunday, about 4.4 miles. This is a cross country ski/recreational area and it's sad to see it so bare. There was a layer of crunchy stuff on the snow shoe trail. Met our friends there and we all comiserated about the lack of snow. DH and I hiked this August and it seemed harder Sunday! Not technically hard, just really steep in a few places.
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I guess all the recent New England snow must have gone north of you. Sorry, Crankin! Every night when I watch the national news, I see TONS of snow, but it's mostly out west and in the plains, I guess.
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It is depressing. There is snow up north, but I am not sure how great it is. Our friends are going up to the White Mountains this weekend, staying where we stayed over New Year's. They asked us to come, but we didn't want to spend the $, as we are unsure of the conditions (even though all of the x country centers say it's good) and in the middle of planning our summer trip, which is really expensive. But, we will make one more trip before winter is over, even if there's no snow around here. We had a little storm last night, but no more than 1-2 inches. It was over 40 today, so it was pretty on my group hike, but it's all melted now. There is nothing else predicted except snow turning to rain next Wednesday.
So, I keep hiking and riding my bike when I can, along with the gym. Another month and I will be focused on seriously getting back on the bike.
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Glad you can get out and hike Crankin, though there are other winter activities you would like to do. How messy are your trails?
It's so warm here that I know the trails would be mud-sucking quagmires so I've not been going. It MIGHT be cold enough Saturday morning for the trails to be at least semi-frozen, or at least I'm crossing my fingers that it will be possible.
Occasional muck. The hike in the state park last Saturday was muddy, but not muck, as there's more running water there than other places I hike. Today was an inch of fluffy snow over pine needles and leaves. So, a bit slick, but I had to take off my spikes, because they were clumping up with snow, leaves, and ice pellets, although it was not icy. Mostly, my hikes have been a bit of crunchy ice/snow, punctuated by leaves, or just plain icy. I actually don't mind if it's muddy, I just need to remember to take my shoes off before I go in the house.
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Sounds great! I don't mind mud if it isn't a quagmire. It's been so bad that if the trail has a sideways lean, one starts sliding to the edge 😲 when that doesn't happen so much mud collects on boots that it quickly becomes hard to move, and that is just destructive. I DO hope I can hit the best drained trails this Sat, time will tell.
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We are wanting to hit the closest state park this weekend for a hike, but if the temps go back up to 47, as predicted, it will be a bog.
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I just read about long-range models forecasting warmer than normal for this month for the entire lower 48. A couple of cold fronts are expected here over the next week but nothing really cold, and low chances of significant snow despite this being our usual month for significant storms.
I read this as: start using the antihistamine eye drops now, because pollen will be kicking up early.
Hopefully it means that your mud will dry up.
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Woo hoo, sunny and 46 today!! We're gonna get our hike on in a little bit.
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Did a 4.3 mile hike in a new area, a combination of MA Audubon trails and town of Westford trails. We hiked around a pond, which was pretty and all, but flat, then turned off onto more up and down trails. So, we got to a road in a development, which we were supposed to follow for a little and then head back into the woods. We saw the sign for Audubon land, but no trail. This was following someone's hike on All Trails, so we ened up bush whacking, which makes me nervous (we were not far from civilization, but I still get nervous) that involved a stream crossing, where someone had made a nice bridge of several logs tied together. I still went across on my rear. Probably only bush whacked for 1/2 a mile, then found the trail.
I used to always want to take my kids to this pond, as we used to drive by there a lot. The hike into the pond is at least half a mile, and I was laughing, thinking that my son who is the major endurance athlete would have been complaining his head off when he was little!
Definitely will go back to explore other trails, sans the bush whacking.
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Our hike was a total bust, my knee was hurting earlier today and even though I iced it just got worse. So I limped for about 3/4 of a mile and had to throw in the towel. I get so frustrated, it was supposed to be better after I went through that barbaric torture, and so many days it's just the same. I feel like crying.
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Bummer, Pax, I am really sorry too. I can only imagine how frustrating that was.
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Came home and iced over the next few hours, took some advil, and shared a bottle of wine with my honey. Amazingly, now I'm not feeling quite so cruddy. Just have to work through this new reality and keep trying. Thanks for the commiseration.
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Sorry about the aborted hike, Pax. The wine helps . I had to have 2 glasses just to get through 1/2 of the Super Bowl. DH had me under threat to be sociable, which wasn't hard, as we were with closer friends, but really, I would have rather been in my house, reading. Now safely home.
I hope you look into the shorter cranks thing mentioned in the other thread.
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