Well I said my next post would be about the hike in Windsor tomorrow but today five of us hiked in the forest, it was the second time for me and others had been more. However this time we got lost so a 1 1/2 hour hike turned into a 2 1/2 hour hike. Once the leaves are down it is hard to track the trail and we got off the trail going up briefly but the mistake we made was taking the wrong trail down from the summit. We realized it was different, then it dawned on us that we were going in the wrong direction so we turned around and then followed a maintenance road for awhile and realized this wasn't right either. So back up to the summit we went to go down the right way. So two summit trips in one hike! Going down was fine except it is a bit tricky towards the end, luckily all of us had hiking poles.
Tomorrows walk will be better! Lessons learned! Bring water and some food, a compass, a cell phone, and maybe extra socks or a blanket. It was drizzling on the way down and if we got soaked that would have made it much worse. Oh yes, there were maps at the start and they would have made a hike less adventurous.
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