🏷️ hiking

For $40 I rented a car today because the taxi was like $30 and I didn't want to carry my suitcase and computers around all day.

After the obligatory drive to wholefoods for a trough I went hiking at Carl Alwin Schenck Memorial Forest which kind of sucked but at least it was warm out.

It's basically a big project for training forresty skills.

After I headed out to Chapel Hill which reminds me of a bigger, nicer Ithaca Still way too many people. It was made Ning to try and find parking. I could never live there. Even back in raleigh I had to wait for someone to leave in order to get a spot at wholefoods.

The Chapel Hill coop is exactly what I would like to see our coop become.

I then handled some emergency work calls and headed closer to the airport where I found Crabtree Country Park. It's much nicer and more relaxing that the other one.

Sunday we tuned out of the Internet and headed over to Letchworth in order to catch some much needed sun. It was amazing. There were rainbows everywhere. Too bad @mike couldn't make it.

Sounds like a leather daddy S&M porno from the 70s but really it was just a pit stop on a long treacherous journey to see the Devil's Hole in icy winter morning with @Robert, mickey, @joe #58570 and @terry.

I still don't understand where his mouth is located. Does anyone know?

@terry, @joe and myself hiking the Niagara gorge last weekend. We got a late start because we had a bunch of other stuff going on in the morning. By the time we got there we just had to go and @terry was wearing flip flops and I was wearing sandals which are not so good for hiking, however, we survived.

The weather was great and so were the views. I got a lot of good pics.

The water was damn so cold. I jumped in by the waterfall and swam to shore but part way across I thought I was going to freeze up and die. Luckily I survived. It was the first time I couldn't even find us on GPS.

Had a great late afternoon trip to zoar with @joe and @terry. The weather was amazingly warm for the post sun part of the day. Laying on a large warm rock with wet feet and no shirts on I thought, tomorrow is September and in less than a few months this will be replaced with the cold of fall and winter and having to snuggle under warm blankets by the fireplace. I am so happy right now.

@terry, his brother and I took the boys out to the gorge for a day of hiking. We had so much fun playing in the rocks and climbing all over everything. Little fin didn't even want to go at the beginning but soon enough he loved it and was junping all over the place like a little monkey.

Everyone like the millipedes.

@YesThatCasey and I headed down to the Gorge for a hike on Saturday. Poor @terry couldn't make it because he had to process taxes all day.

It was nice to spend the day relaxing in the sun and I got to talk through a bunch of stuff going through my head.

We saw @holly's husband Brian filming down there.

We had such a fun time climbing at Little Rock City in Ellicottville. It was 60 and sunny with snow up to my knees. It felt so great to be in the sun. Strangely Ellicottville was having Mardi Gras today. All the places were decorated for Mardi Gras and people were wearing beads.

@Robert is so adventurous. He climbed all up on everything and he and @terry wrestled the day away. Then we had yummy food at the Ellicotville Brewery Company.

I headed out to Art Roscoe cross country ski and mountain bike area with @terry, @libertad and robert. We had trouble finding it at first but then I found an old map online.

We hit up Christian Holllow and then decided to kick it up a notch and hit the snow snake black trail. Holy crap that starts out pretty steep. It was almost like downhill skiing.

I wish I got more pics but I couldn't be because my hands were busy supporting my life. Right now I am soaking wet with sweat and gotta get cleaned up for my mom's birthday dinner - excited to eat crab. It was a fun day for everyone.