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A Walking Meditation Across Northern Spain

Friday, March 28, 2014

A Walk In the Rain

I walked from the house where I'm staying up to the top of Council Crest..uphill all the way, carrying my 14 pound backpack.  I was prepared for the rain with my rain jacket and hat to keep the hood off my face. 
Started out in intermittent rain and relatively warm.  Under the jacket, I was wearing a wicking T-shirt, my arms were kinda cold.  I had skipped putting on my rain pants...whoop
The walk up was good.  About a 1/4 of a mile was on a lovely trail, but the rest was pavement. 
On Council Crest the rain was steady.  By the time I got to the top, the wind was blowing,the rain was coming at me sideways and I was regretting not putting on my rainpants.  It reminded me on crossing the Pyrenees. Once I was down from the top, the rain stopped, the wind stopped, but the sun did not come out.
The walk down hill to Sunset was dry and by the time I was back at the house, my pants were completely dry.
I had walked just 5.5 miles.
A short, but sweet wooded trail
Yellow Arrows - a welcome sight
A magnolia blooming in the rain on Council Crest
Raining horizontally

Lovely Banana Slug

1 comment:

  1. Love your blog and pictures except the last one; whereupon I just screamed!! Lol

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