Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

Hiking


Friday I decided go for a hike in the hills around our home. It is something that I love to do and I had not done it this summer at all. I think it's because of the weather this year. Well any who, the weather here in Maine is the best, warm days and cool nights are what September and October brings. So off I go to climb to the top of Maiden Cliff. When I reached the summit and sat down to rest, and take in the views. I realized why I love too hike. It's the beauty but most of all it's the clearing of the mind that is so revitalizing. I will now be hiking much more.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Nice Underpants.

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I decided to go for a hike on Bald Mountain. The weather was so pleasant and on the way up to the top I passed only two people. I thought that now I was alone, because there were only two cars in the parking lot. So I was really surprised when I exited the woods at the summit and found there was someone else up there as well. And what surprised me more was that this man was sitting on a rock in his underwear sunning himself. All of his other clothes were hanging on branches surrounding him. Now all the times that I have been hiking I have never crossed paths with anybody in their underwear. Well you could have knocked me over with a feather. So I slowly made my way down the trail with out disturbing my under panted friend. All the way down the trail I kept thinking that this person was going to come up behind me and smash me in the head with a big rock and all the while he would only be wearing his underpants. Oh the horror of it all. So I was really startled when he suddenly appeared in back of me, fully dressed. Well it turned out his name was Remy and that he was from France and he was visiting friends in Rockland that he had met when he got involved in Outward Bound. He was a very nice person and we talked for about a half and hour. He just kept saying how he thought this area, the mid coast, was such a wonderful place to live. He said that the friends that he met on his Outward Bound experience were friends for life. He was a very nice person even if did like to set around on top of a mountain in his underwear. So don't make snap judgement about all the people you meet in their underwear.