🏷️ hiking

I freaking love this place. This time we took a long trail way the heck out into the forest. @matthew #52408 got some awesome pics with a real camera. We ended up seeing so much more than the time we went over the winter with @james.

Had a fun day at zoar valley with @terry. I kind of felt bad not finishing the dormer but sometimes I need to do something besides work or housework. At the bottom of this journal, there is a picture of me in a creek where you can see my butt, just stop scrolling now if it will be an issue.

The dormer leering at me.



@terry swinging like tarzan
Imagine how much better it would be if I had recorded it in the right direction.


Its not to late to turn back. I'm looking a lot buffer than the pics from a couple years ago.

I went to zoar valley with @mike and @libertad. It's was so awesome
out. We even went swimming! I think is the earliest I have been
swimming. It was cold though, especially when my nuts hit the water
but we survived thanks to the 82 degree air temperature. I I've freak
warm spring days because unlike summer and fall, there are barely any
bugs and no mosquitos or horse flies.

The waterfall was so beautiful right, I wish I took pics.

The valley has changed since the flood. I seriously cannot belive how
high the water must have been during the flood last year. There was
debris and trees fallen 15 feet above normal creek level. It must have looked like the niagara river.


The island we skinny dip on was almost washed away and a new island
formed that was connected to shore by two giant trees that were
brought down when their roots washed out. They made awesome bridges.

I snapped these pics of @james at Little Rock City. Picture one looks better but I was to upclose so I got on the ground to take the second one. This rock was like 30 ft in the air on top of another much larger rock which is not so obvious in the pic.

This is what @terry did instead

We went to Times Beach this afternoon and spent time in the sun. I even took off my shirt for a while to maximize vitamin D production. The ice was still pretty thick, I walked out pretty far till I heard that scary cracking - the titanic hit an iceberg - noise and headed back in. It didn't stop me from skating around off shore for a bit which was so great in the sun. It made the very top very wet and slippery.


Tonight we are off to dinner with Robert and James. What a busy weekend.

This rock is somewhere in Norway. I would never want to stand on it.
If we went there @terry would surely make me stand in it. I think
I'd rather just wait till we are old and tell people that is a picture
of us.

This looks like it could be fun. Just a random pic I found on flickr, sadly I was not there taking the pic.

We went hiking and "rafting" at zoar followed by a cheeseburger,
followed by the kenmore days fireworks. It was amazing.

It was supposed to be followed up by dancing in Rochester but we had
the wrong night;(


Here a @mike and @libertad trying to squeeze the air out of the pink float at the end of the day.

We went hiking today at 18 mile creek with @jim and @james. It was so nice out.

We climbed on some cliffs and saw a waterfall with a rainbow in it.



At least my winter didn't suck this bad.


Afterwards, we went to Thirsty Buffalo. This was my seconds time there and I was really not impressed with the food. Its okay. The entrees are defiantely not worth the price. The last time I got the ribs and they were cold. $17 for ribs that were cold. @jim ordered us the poutine fries apettizer. They were pretty yum.

We went to Letchworth State Park today to take pictures. I didn't get such great pics because I only brought the iphone. There were these amazing rainbows. I hope @matthew got better pics of them.





We hiked all around, it was really warm in the sun and really not warm in the not sun.

The water is so low that this doesn't look like it is doing a "dam" thing, lol.