Hiking the Cheese Trail
Well — here’s the quickie version. I’m working on a much more
extended one for the website, but it’s taking longer than expected.
Here’s the beginnings of the cheese
report, which we’ll update as we re-sample the cheeses we
purchased. We got our pictures back a couple of days ago, so photos
will be posted soon.
It was great. Lots of hiking, lots of cheese, some actual resting
and such.
The 3 days in the Adirondacks were great. We stayed up at the
Adirondak
Loj at Heart Lake in a lean-to (which
looks like this). Yes, I camped for three days. We hiked up
two peaks in the Adirondacks, Mt. Hoevenberg and Mt. Joe. We actually
went up and over Mt. Hovenberg twice on our way to and from the
Lake Placid Olympic park where we did the bobsled right. 40 seconds
of heart stopping maddness!
We spent one night at a farm in Woodstock, VT called Shepherds
Hill. It was quite nice. Came back with some great organic, free-range
lamb sausage. I almost had a job interview in Woodstock, but the
woman got the flu and had to cancel.
Then it was on to Grafton and the beautiful cabin at Larks Meadow
Farm. It was exactly like we remembered it. Too beautiful for
words. It was really weird seeing the real place again, because
I use that place as the entry to the otherworld when doing pathworkings
and journeys. It’s really one of the most enchanted places on
earth.
We hit about 10 dairies with varying success and hiked two more
mountain trails, Mt. Putney and Black Mountain. No wild blueberries
on Mt. Putney — but hit the mother load at Black Mountain. We
also found lots of wild raspberries. We found a few great letterboxes
and even picked up a hitch-hiker box. It was our first one in
ages. I love searching for the boxes while we’re out hiking. There
were a few fabulous custom stamps in the log books and the Elephant
Tree and Piliated Woodpecker stamps were just amazing! Both of
those were by the same people and placed in Putney Forest.
Anyway — it was a grand adventure!
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