tuesday i marched up it because monday it had been taken, but i had some trail intelligence that post thaw that last tenth of a mile may or may not have been hairy, so i decided to go up by way of the ridgeline trail, which is a mile longer each way, but presents less in the way of ledges you could fall down.
it took me longer than i expected, because snow conditions and also i wanted to make sure as i went up that i cleared all the steps and ladders to make a safe descent for myself and anybody coming after.also i think i was just slower because i'm either in the middle of or just coming out of a flare-up.
it's hard to tell. a lot of days i have as much pain as i used to before i started taking antimalarials, but i do more stuff before i get to that layer of pain.
anyway, the temperature was challenging in that when it's REALLY cold out you just bundle up and keep moving, but when it's moderately cold out you have to dress for not sweating too much if you're going to stop at the summit for any length of time because then you will freeze.
and when i got to the summit, i was under a green field that hadn't been there in the morning when i left the house, so not as big of a triumph as i'd been hoping, but then because that guy robbed the bank, one of my teammates got called into work early and was available to clean that up for me instead of at home sleeping.
i thought "that's ok. i'll just hang out up here and have a nice hot drink of tea."
and then i opened my bottle to find my tea STILL TOO HOT TO DRINK.
ugh.
anyway, by the time i got down to my car it was well dark, so that was an adventure.
but it was seriously cool waiting at the top of that mountain for the field to come down.
and now we have a link from elmore to spruce, which we had not had the opportunity to do in some time.
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