The other day, my iPhone gave me an alert. It reported that my “activity level” for the last month had fallen below what it normally was. While I was surprised that my phone was monitoring me so closely, I was pleased that it gave me the alert, because I knew that with the onslaught of colder weather, I have been a lot more housebound and inactive, than I usually am during the warmer weather, and getting the alert, made me want to do something about my laziness.
I decided that I should walk our loop trail again. A few years ago, walking the trail was something we did everyday, sometimes twice a day. During those intervening years, for one reason or another, we stopped our little treks through the neighbor’s woods. A few times I had done in during those slack years, I found the trail hard to hike because of all of the deadfall and branches that were blocking the path. During the summer, the portion of the trail that ran through the fields down by the river, were overgrown with prickly tall thistles.
The other day when I decided to walk the trail, I had forgotten just how unfriendly it had become, but the minute I began my hike, I quickly remembered. The photo above shows the first obstacles blocking my way. I decided instead of following the trail, I would just bushwhack through the woods, but doing that was just as hassle-prone as the trail. By the time I got home, I realized that our trail, was just beyond hope, and would require just too much work to re-establish.
Since I do walk around the pond several times a day, I have decided to jog or run along the dam which is level. At least that will give me a bit more exercise than just walking. Of course, I will only be able to keep doing that until the snow levels get so high, then the dam too will become too much of an hassle, until I snowshoe a path on it.
Below is an old photo of roughly the same place as the photo above, however the trail is only shown in the lower left corner.
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