Over the years... and it has been quite a few years... I've done a lot of adventuring with friend Ellen. I don't think we coined the term, but we called ourselves Adventure Buddies. We managed to get outside and do something together (hike, bicycle, ski, kayak) about once a month for a number of years. Then she got a granddaughter. Well. That threw in a major monkeywrench since the girl lives several hours away.
Anyway, she doesn't let me take her picture very often, so I'll just share this one that is one of my favorites from 15 (yes fifteen!) years ago. And you can see that Maggie was still alive. This was taken at Gales Pond. The last hike we did together was a year ago in the spring. We really need to get back into some kind of rhythm.
Today we explored the Pentwater Wagon Road. Ellen introduced me to this pathway, again, 15 years ago. It is the (very) old road into Pentwater. In fact, it's not really a road any more. But it's still supposed to be a public right-of-way.
But Ellen had discovered that someone has placed a fence across it. She called the township, and they said "public." So we thought we'd see what the status is.
It starts out looking just fine. Would this condition remain?
The morning was sunny and cool. I can never decide, but this might be my favorite picture from this fall. Wagon Road still fine.
Lots of blueberries along the pathway. They turn a nice red in the fall.
Oops. Yup, about a mile in, there is not only fence, but a serious barrier. We took pictures and the location. Ellen will contact the township once again. It's kind of annoying, because you used to be able to walk all the way into town on this.
On the way back, we found one little blob of yellow Witches' Butter fungus.
Since that hike was shorter than we had hoped, she took me to two small, newish nature preserves that I had not yet been to. I'll share those in the days ahead. All together, we managed to hike 3.6 miles. Then we headed back to her house.
Ellen has a long history of treating me with wonderful meals. Today was no exception. She made us sandwiches of some yummy brown bread (toasted), turkey, apple, goat cheese, strawberry jam, and greens. Wowzer!
Needless to say, not a lot of serious work happened today. But that's OK. I'm gloriously happy at the wonderful adventures.
Miles hiked in 2025 (I've added all 3.6 on here) 433
Pentwater Wagon Road, out and back 2.2. Pine Forest Loop 0.4. Dumaw Woodland 1.0 miles
 | See my first hike on the Wagon Road |
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