by Michele Reber | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog, Featured 1 |
I feel like the woods knew I had come to the end of my 52-week hiking challenge. The ferns are starting to brown and droop, green acorns are starting to fall, and the trail is already covered with a thin carpet of brown leaves. The crickets sound a little more tired...
by Michele Reber | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, Featured 2 |
Week 51 and the day was a little less brutal in terms of heat and humidity for my hike this week. In fact, I found myself lingering here and there in various pretty spots, something I don’t do when I am just trying to bang out a hike before the heat gets too bad. It...
by Michele Reber | Aug 24, 2016 | Blog, Featured 3 |
…and we hit Week 50! A little less hot and humid and this week had an added bonus – I managed to finish the hike literally 5 minutes before an extended torrential downpour. Yay, me! This week as I sweated and walked into spider web after spider web (gross), I was...
by Michele Reber | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog |
I had a Captain Kirk moment on my hike this week: “Must. Keep. Going.” This uttered as sweat poured from every place it possibly could. Ahh, Baltimore in August. I had to choose my thoughts carefully to make myself not take the shortcut half-way through my usual...
by Michele Reber | Aug 10, 2016 | Blog |
Another hot one in Baltimore as I hit week 48 of my 52-week hiking challenge. And it was a CHALLENGE. I found myself asking why I ever decided to do it in the first place. I became more and more miserable as my brain slowly melted in the 94% humidity and didn’t see...