The weather reports were wrong. Instead of the beautiful sunny weather they had promised we got a drizzle that turned into a lot of, seemingly never ending, rain. So our little group of four, hiking a mountain in the Adirondacks, got really soaked. To the bone, and our boots were saturated and made splutter noises with every step.
Nevertheless we hiked about 8 hours up Dix Mountain, 21 Kilometre and 1000 meters elevation change. Still, the rain hadn’t stopped, so we made supper under a small tarp and then went to bed early. A cold and damp bed in my case, since I didn’t have much warm and dry clothes with me. Bad preparation, yes, it sometimes happens to me as well.
Jul 22 2006
Wet
The weather reports were wrong. Instead of the beautiful sunny weather they had promised we got a drizzle that turned into a lot of, seemingly never ending, rain. So our little group of four, hiking a mountain in the Adirondacks, got really soaked. To the bone, and our boots were saturated and made splutter noises with every step.
Nevertheless we hiked about 8 hours up Dix Mountain, 21 Kilometre and 1000 meters elevation change. Still, the rain hadn’t stopped, so we made supper under a small tarp and then went to bed early. A cold and damp bed in my case, since I didn’t have much warm and dry clothes with me. Bad preparation, yes, it sometimes happens to me as well.
By mare • english •