For the fourth year in a row Connecticut Valley Atheists sponsored trail magic on the summit of Bear Mountain, the Appalachian Trail's highest point in Connecticut. Paul and I came up Undermountain Trail, bringing up a cooler full of peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, cherries, and lemonade, along with some doughnuts.
We spend several hours hanging around the summit handing out magic. The only through hiker we met this year was Bumble, a NOBO who started from Springer on May Day. There were also at least seven long distance section hikers, though, a group of four NOBO women, another group of two NOBO woman, and a SOBO man. As usual, there were also lots and lots of day hikers.
Although it had clearly rained recently when we started, we saw none of it, and it was mostly sunny all day.
After all of the lemonade, most of the fruit, and all but one doughnut were gone, we hiked back down.
Here are the pictures.
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Cumulus
NE111: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2); Cat35: 27/39; WNH4K: 32/48; NEFF: 36/50
LT NB 2009
"I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "-- so long as I get somewhere," ...
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
- Lewis Carroll
We spend several hours hanging around the summit handing out magic. The only through hiker we met this year was Bumble, a NOBO who started from Springer on May Day. There were also at least seven long distance section hikers, though, a group of four NOBO women, another group of two NOBO woman, and a SOBO man. As usual, there were also lots and lots of day hikers.
Although it had clearly rained recently when we started, we saw none of it, and it was mostly sunny all day.
After all of the lemonade, most of the fruit, and all but one doughnut were gone, we hiked back down.
Here are the pictures.
--
Cumulus
NE111: 115/115 (67/67, 46/46, 2/2); Cat35: 27/39; WNH4K: 32/48; NEFF: 36/50
LT NB 2009
"I don't much care where [I get to] --" said Alice, "-- so long as I get somewhere," ...
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."
- Lewis Carroll