Made it Up the Mountain
OK, I didn't have a camera, here's the trail later in the season
After dealing with a few last minute stories that needed editing, the girl and I made it out the door and up the road a few miles for a hike. The snow has finally melted enough to make it all the way to the end of our forest road and the trailhead that leads into the Pecos wilderness.
I gassed Flora up with some Cherry Cider and a few snacks and strapped her into our Kelty baby backpack that I’m slowly falling in love with (more on this in a separate post) and we hit the trail for a short mid-afternoon hike-break. After some fun in the mud and seasonal snowmelt streams at the top of a hill just short of the Wilderness boundary, we headed back down, fitting the whole excursion into one, all-too-short hour, getting home in time to wrap up my editing shift for the day. Sigh.
Other important new developments: Flora took great pains to enlighten me on the difference between “rock” and “big rock” and of course, no mud-puddle went unnoticed.