Earth Day at Tumbledown Mountain

April 24, 2008

Yesterday was the season's first mountain hike. In a word, or rather two, it was spectacular and wet. My parents were visiting for a day on their way home to Nova Scotia from Boston, where they were cheering for friends who were running the Boston Marathon (they've run this course themselves in the past). The forecast was for beautiful weather so Damien took the day off and we planned and prepared for the first mountain hike of the season.

We haven't hiked in spring before and we are learning why not many people do - it's wet, and at times snowy and muddy, but oh so much fun to be out in the mountains after the winter months! Brook trail on Tumbledown Mountain is the most direct route to the mountain top pond. In the summer, when the trail isn't obscured by snow or spring run off, I imagine the hike would be much faster than the 6 hours (including lunch and a nap at the top) it took our family group. Time didn't really matter to us though and we had a great day enjoying spring in the mountains, even if we did literally ring water out of our socks at the end.