dr_wu002
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On July 4th I hike Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts. These days I've been somewhat hesitant to post trip reports of boring solo hikes that I do but this wasn't boring and it wasn't solo -- it was with my dad.
Before my wonderful hiking partner introduced (I should say reintroduced) me to hiking in 2003 my father got me started more than 15 years before that. We hiked my first mountain together on a cold, nasty, foggy-awful day on, you guessed it, Washington -- sometime in '86 or '87. After that we had a tradition of hiking Washington every summer which my dad carried on long after I stopped (grew out of it, literally -- I got a little chubby in college) with my sister and then with my younger brother.
Since about 1992 my dad and I hiked Washington together only once but for the most part, the last 13 years have not listed hiking on the father-son activities chart. But now that I've been hiking regularly since 2003 I've been bugging him -- "let's go to Washington again" - "No, I've got to lose weight..." was what I've usually heard, even though I think he'd be fine. So, eventually we settled on Greylock and set a date for July 4th. And, to my surprise, I found out that he lost >10lbs just for the occasion! Wish I could have said that!
Now, for those of you who aren't familiar with Greylock, it's the 22nd most prominent mountain in the North East US. The views aren't spectacular from the top (although there is a tower) and there is a road going up, but it's a nice ramble through the woods in a particularly pretty section of Massachusetts an in an interesting and less-talked-about mountain range: The Taconics. Hell, someone (of course not me!
) saw a bear on the trail and the ranger on the top told us he's seen moose, bobcats, wolves and even a mountain lion there over the years.
So, we had a great hike and I was able to chatter on and on (and on and on) about bears and fir waves and glaciation while he chugged along behind me. At the top you can just barely make out Washington and I know that my dad's got it in his sites once again especially after he conquered Greylock easy enough. I'm up for it and can't wait -- except, this time I'm hoping we can eventually reprise with a trip up Crawford Path and then possibly repay hiim for introducing me to the wonders of the Presidentials.
Anyway, here's a View From The Top of Greylock and other pictures can be seen from the link below the photo:
Link to Photos: http://community.webshots.com/album/390558578aqIIqh
Also, if you've gotten this far, here is some pictures from a boring trip I did to the Tripyramids and Sleepers on July 2: http://community.webshots.com/album/390547873REmptk
-Dr. Wu
Before my wonderful hiking partner introduced (I should say reintroduced) me to hiking in 2003 my father got me started more than 15 years before that. We hiked my first mountain together on a cold, nasty, foggy-awful day on, you guessed it, Washington -- sometime in '86 or '87. After that we had a tradition of hiking Washington every summer which my dad carried on long after I stopped (grew out of it, literally -- I got a little chubby in college) with my sister and then with my younger brother.
Since about 1992 my dad and I hiked Washington together only once but for the most part, the last 13 years have not listed hiking on the father-son activities chart. But now that I've been hiking regularly since 2003 I've been bugging him -- "let's go to Washington again" - "No, I've got to lose weight..." was what I've usually heard, even though I think he'd be fine. So, eventually we settled on Greylock and set a date for July 4th. And, to my surprise, I found out that he lost >10lbs just for the occasion! Wish I could have said that!
Now, for those of you who aren't familiar with Greylock, it's the 22nd most prominent mountain in the North East US. The views aren't spectacular from the top (although there is a tower) and there is a road going up, but it's a nice ramble through the woods in a particularly pretty section of Massachusetts an in an interesting and less-talked-about mountain range: The Taconics. Hell, someone (of course not me!
) saw a bear on the trail and the ranger on the top told us he's seen moose, bobcats, wolves and even a mountain lion there over the years. So, we had a great hike and I was able to chatter on and on (and on and on) about bears and fir waves and glaciation while he chugged along behind me. At the top you can just barely make out Washington and I know that my dad's got it in his sites once again especially after he conquered Greylock easy enough. I'm up for it and can't wait -- except, this time I'm hoping we can eventually reprise with a trip up Crawford Path and then possibly repay hiim for introducing me to the wonders of the Presidentials.
Anyway, here's a View From The Top of Greylock and other pictures can be seen from the link below the photo:
Link to Photos: http://community.webshots.com/album/390558578aqIIqh
Also, if you've gotten this far, here is some pictures from a boring trip I did to the Tripyramids and Sleepers on July 2: http://community.webshots.com/album/390547873REmptk
-Dr. Wu
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