As the scene above and my homey Dan Davis to the right indicates, we hit a little snag on an attempt of the NJ Stonetown Circular hike adjacent to the Wanaque Reservoir. A forecast of a high of 50 degrees and precip under 20% led some of us to come unprepared - cotton, sneakers and no shell nor traction - for the chorus of winter rain and light hail that greeted us at the top of Windbeam Mountain. Fail and bail, but lesson learnt. (Yes, learnt, "learned" implies we won't make the same mistake again.) Forecasting is simply not an exact science. Ironically last summer Dan, a few others and myself were turned just short of Wittenberg's summit by an unexpected and ferocious electrical storm that downed large trees along the trail within a mile of us. Better to be prepared than suffer the consequences (and resort to throwing a smoothie at Nicholas Cage's head out of frustration afterwards).
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Is this a summoning so that I should place my comment as well?
ReplyDeleteI wont be a stranger in the north, although its damn cold up there today and cloudy here, of course i would pick the best day for FLYING> my bags are SO heavy. fuck.
anyway kisses, I shall talk to you sooner than later.
C.