Beautiful but chilly day today. About -10 Fahrenheit this morning.… Not so cold for here… But the first real winter temperatures.… It was sunny and bright so we decided to go out anyway.… The air it warmed up to the low teens so why not. We headed up to catamount Trail. We ended up walking the first couple of miles because the snow was so packed and we didn’t need snow shoes. We had it off trail initially bound to see some old beaver ponds we like to visit and then realized That we didn’t have time to make what would’ve been about a 7 mile round-trip. Instead we decided To snowshoe back along the ridge along the east of Preston, Brooke.… We had our GPS but we decided to see if we could do it by dead reckoning.… We decided to keep our shadows to the right and see how well that went.… That can work as long as you’re not Moving long enough for the sun to move too much

Between that and our fancy GPS we had no trouble tracking that 2 1/2 miles back. It was lovely deep snow and really nice hiking except for some serious brambles where the land had been logged a few years back

Beautiful day…

Spent the rest of the day trying to catch up for The week ahead…

One other great mile stone today.… We finished another puzzle. It’s amazing how satisfying that is in these crazy times

Ok More tomorrow

Nite all, nite sam

-me