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July 11, 2006

Hiking Expedition

Owen and I went hiking this past weekend, taking advantage of the gorgeous weather to get out and have some fun. Our plan was to hike for a couple of hours on Friday night, stay overnight at the Cooley Glen Shelter, and complete a 9-mile loop back to the car the next day. Unfortunately, we arrived at the trail a bit later than we expected, leaving us with only an hour of daylight and 3.2 miles to attempt to travel. Although we had resigned ourselves to camping somewhere along the trail, a few estimates and mathematical calculations indicated that we could make it to the shelter before the sunlight completely vanished, which is exactly what happened. We traveled the nine miles on Saturday in a much more leisurely fashion, ending the hike with only a couple of blisters on the bottom of my feet and fewer than a dozen complaints from Owen.

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