Two Weekly Walks: Updated 1/22/14 The Hardy Hikers!

I am going to combine this weeks and next weeks walks since we are repeating locations.  Have a nice picture of 12 of the 14 of us and most of the 5 dogs.  We did the Hell Hollow Rd loop which is about 5 miles and has some lovely views and today with the sunshine and warmer temperatures ...just a delight for all.

Next week we will most likely repeat another road walk unless we get snow.  The rain pretty much eliminated most of our snow.

Here is the pic!

Today 1/22/14 Ten of us and three dogs walked Camp Rd to Hopkins and then back.  it is a shorter walk, about three miles maybe because of the cold.  It was -3 when we started and only about 4 when we finished about an hour and fifteen minutes later.  The dogs were glad to be out as their owners haven't been on the roads so much lately and they were frisky. The rest of us were bundled up and didn't seem to mind the cold.

The picture of the barn added below was taken by Barb today, but it was on our walk last week as the barn is on Lang Rd.  What a great picture!   Still not enough snow to snowshoe unless we get some on Saturday.
With the wind chill it will be cold the next few days.

School Switchback

Today our plans to snowshoe were derailed as it poured on Monday and the beautiful fluffy snow
that a few of us snowshoed on Sunday is now icy and crusty!  Three of us took advantage of the milder temperatures and nice snow to go out on snowshoes on Columbus Jordan Road on Sunday for a glorious two hours.

Today the normal Wednesday walkers added yak tracs and ski poles to walk on the trails behind the Plainfield School where we normal hike up to the ledges.  Today we opted for a less traveled trail known as the switchback trail which is well named.  The trail wasn't as icy and we saw the interesting knotted trees that I need to take of photo of next time we are there.

There were eight walkers and 3 dogs today.  The weather was sunny and though cold, about 8 degrees at 10 AM as we started an hour later, the wind had died down and it was very nice on the trails. We were out for an hour and a half but went at a slow pace because of the conditions.

No photos again!