Elephant in the rain - Geri's Bday

bobandgeri · Jun 19, 2005

Saturday we woke to rain as expected. This was Geri's 45th B-day so the choice was her's to make - go do a bushwack in the rain, or go back to bed and go out to breakfast.

Two hours later we found oursleves making our way up a logging road to teh start of the bushwack to Elephant mountain in Maine.

There has been a lot of recent activity since our last drive here in November. Back then we ended up not hiking due to the large numbers of hunters in the area.

The route up to the summit mostly followed herd paths that we found, several of which were now more like streams, but 80 minutes after we started we were at the cannister. The return trip took longer was we headed off the summit on a herd path and followed it too far, ending up in thick spruce and a boggy section - all part of the adventure!

Pics and details including a shot of a fox pup that hadn't learned to be afraid of man yet are posted on our web page:

http://rbhayes.net/latesthike.html

AntlerPeak · Jun 19, 2005

Nice pics it looks like you had fun. Happy Bd Geri

http://mysite.verizon.net/antlerpeak/

NewHampshire · Jun 19, 2005

Way to go and happy birthday Geri, and to many mant more!!!!
Brian

MichaelJ · Jun 19, 2005

Sweet! Happy Birthday!

audrey · Jun 20, 2005

Happy birthday, Geri! There are worse ways to spend a 45th birthday than whacking around in a spruce thicket, right?

When we did Elephant last year, we didn't find the herd path till we were almost at the summit, and then on the way down we lost it temporarily in a fearsome mess of blowdowns. We weren't vigilant because we didn't know it would take us all the way to the car.

This year I'm looking forward to cruising right up.