Sebbylite

I decided to go out hiking on Saturday, because it was the last weekend that I will have the full use of two legs for about a month and a half.

Yep, I’m going under the knife on Friday. What for, you may ask? Well, the “patellar tendonitis” that I’ve been dealing with for the past year has actually turned out to be a torn patellar tendon. And the options were 1) deal with it for the next 10-15 years until you give up playing sports altogether, or 2) have surgery and be back to 100% in about 5-6 months. Freakily, I chose the latter.

Back to the hike, which was awesome. Esky loves the snow, and as soon as we got out of the car he just started running around in it, stopping every once in a while to eat a mouthful just because. I also like the snow, but it makes taking pictures a little tough, especially since it was raining for the first part of the hike, until I got a little higher in elevation. But I got a couple good shots, some of which are added to the end of this post.

Basically the hike was straight uphill, which I wasn’t really looking for but it turned out to be good for me anyway. Esky ranged ahead the whole time, jumping in streams and digging up rocks, checking out different things off the trail, and generally having a grand old time. I was a little slower (since I only have two legs, and was carrying all my stuff), but still managed to go fast enough to keep him happy. After about a mile of uphill, we came to an overlook of I-90. The snow was really coming down at that time, which makes for bad pictures but an awesome view. You couldn’t really tell what was snow falling, what was snow on the ground, what was cloud, and what was freeway. Pretty neat. (Yeah, that’s right, I said “neat”, what are you going to do about it?)

Here’s a couple shots I did get that turned out:

Snow berms before we got into them.

Did I mention that the dog likes snow?

Sounds like pretty solid advice. At least as far as signs are concerned…