AT!!!!!

Ok, sort of. About 2.6 miles of it. And it almost killed me! We went up to Crawford Notch. The idea was to hike Ethan Pond Trail and stay at the shelter there. We got a very late start. Due to that, and my VERY poor conditioning, we were forced to turn back and camp at a state camp site for the night. It was actually quite pleasant. The next day we hit the trail again. Wow. I guess I was more rested up or something since I was physically able to get up the initial ascent but that was only half of it! The last .8 miles of it was all snowed in. Fortuneately, most of the snow had melted. Un-fortuneately, the only part of the trail was a 4 inch wide ridge of packed snow running along the middle of the trail. Fall off, or through, the ridge and you sunk knee deep in the snow and landed in an ankle deep puddle of cold, muddy, icy water. Yech. It took us over three hours to get to the camp site. Thank God that we didn't attempt that last night. We never would have made it! It took us two hours to get back and that was all down hill!! 5 and a half hours to go 5.2 miles. Slow going I guess!