I'm thinking of changing the name of this blog to 'Porch Adventures' or something along those lines because apparently everything good comes out of hanging out on porches, including my Saturday afternooon hike up Mt. Wachusett in Princeton, MA.
The trip up to Mountain Road didn't start out to promising, the sun that had been out earlier on in the day, contradictory to reports from the weather gurus, started to disappear behind a steadily approaching group of clouds, the directions we had on us didn't seem to be doing much good, and 10 minutes or so in a freak streak of lightning followed by a growl of thunder came directly our way. Yet our leader and driver would not be deterred and I was psyching myself to do my first hike up this mountain soaked to the bone in cold autumn rain.
We saw brighter skies in the horizon and realized after while that even though we seemed to be going in away from it we wound up on the right path for chasing the sun. As we parked and got off at the bottom of Mountain House trail the sunshine found us, and as it broke through the yellowing leaves our hike became, unintentionally, perfectly timed. (If you need a trail map check it out here)
We hiked all the way to the top, me straggling behind throughout and kept company by "Mr. Maksymowicz" though everyone was kind enough to wait and play catch up as well. We took Mountain House all the way up and then switched to Harrington, Jack Frost on the way down and as a result got to do some climbing, walking over bridges, trudging through mud, slipping and sliding, and even made time to dip our hands in some extra cool river shallow stream water.
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| All pics from via camera phone (Thanks Phil!) |
The overall hike was great, though for myself, the journey up and down was a great deal more scenic than the view at the top which, due to some construction and wire fencing is unfortunately not all that it could be. I think the folks on the ski life (which by the way you can only get on at the bottom) probably got a great view up top but my lack of fondness for heights made me happy not to be on it.
Anyway here's a thanks to the residents of B-Stone 207 for letting me tag along for your adventure Saturday. And today's what I'm listening to is courtesy of their first selection for our ride up.
At Present: Listening to, LCD Soundsystem -Someone Great Wishing I was, right where I am now -blogging on a perfect, sunny autumn day in the space between the library and B-Town known as Stonehenge (Check it out on your next Clark University tour)
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