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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Happy Hiking! Happy Day #67

Yes - I'm still a few days behind but we had such a lovely day hiking on Monday that it deserves a "happy days" blog post.

First happiness of the day- we were off of work! YAY! An extra day off given as "staff appreciation day" was appreciated by staff in return :-)

So three of us from the library headed off to Harper's Ferry in search of colorful fall leaves and exhilarating, and heart pumping hiking.  I will admit I was a bit worried right up until the end of the hike that the weather was going to betray us.  It rained the whole way there and then sprinkled on us pretty good when we stopped for lunch but other than that, fog was really the worst we dealt with while actually hiking.  We put in about 9 miles and boy was the uphill hard after not seriously hiking for several months.  Big thanks to my hiking companions for not leaving me in their dust! After our hike we found a little coffee shop in town and drank a huge serving of hot apple cider and shared an apple dumpling...one must always reward themselves after a tough hike :-) Sadly I didn't take a photo of the treats but here are a few from along the hike.
 Pretty views!
 lunch under the umbrella - sorry for the weird face!
Yay!  We made it to the overlook-- Actually we climbed much higher than the overlook but this is where we could take pictures with no fog obstructing our views!

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