Comments | lissa_dora: In Which Our Heros Climb a Creek

lissa_dora

In Which Our Heros Climb a Creek

Sep 16, 2007 17:08

Ow, ow, ow.. That was fun!

That's what I get a lot when the Dragon & I go hiking with Wade-and-sometimes-DanDan... it's just a little more heightened this time.
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lissa_dora September 17 2007, 02:09:47 UTC

The acorn squash was the one squash we got from the plant. The rest was market food :-)

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lissa_dora September 17 2007, 15:54:25 UTC

I don't tend to pick up rocks, no, though I tried to bring home some pine needles.

The creeks we've been doing are pretty intensive, but I'd love to do something Alex could do with you some time - Stonybrook maybe, or Buttermilk falls... there's a thousand creeks in the Finger Lakes region.

I'd never take a camera that wasn't mine on a hike like yesterday's, but thanks for the offer. :-)

eseme September 18 2007, 04:53:56 UTC

Creek climbing sounds neat, although messy. But that's part of the fun I'm sure.

The last time I did something similar was back in gradeschool (sixth grade maybe). Across the street from the school is the cemetary, and behind that is a ravine. Someone at the school had the bright idea of trying to put a nature trail of some sort down in there, and my class was supposed to look around and see if it would work. The climb in was hard, and we didn't have time for much exploring. I think at some later point after school I and a few other kids went wandering in. We found a tire swing, so others had been there (I hadn't known the area existed). We followed the creek as far as we could, until we came out a ways behind The Country Store (yeah, it really is called that). We really wanted to get to the store and ice cream. but the area was full of rocks and mud- I think the tide was low and we weren't going to make it through mudflats without hip waders.

I should go see if the trail still exists.

lissa_dora September 18 2007, 15:36:39 UTC

It can be - and, in this case, was - very very messy. Mud-caked jeans and scraped and muddy hands and everything in between.

I really recomend it, though the harder paths - like the one we did Sunday - aren't something I'd ever do alone. I really and truely needed help on some parts - well, anyone but the Billy Goat (Dragon Goat? Does that make him a Chimera? ;-) I married would need help.)

It sounds like you had a lot of fun... sometimes it really is the messiest things that are the funnest, aren't they?