Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Indian River Trail
Saturday after my sister arrived I dragged her and Rob Morris down Indian River trail to the falls. I'd totally had a hankering to get back there or up Verstovia since deciding to come to Sitka for the big ordination back in January. So, ever the good sport, here she is about a thousand layers of clothes. It was in the 80s back east last week just before she came out.
Being the world champion dork that I am we came across these trees across the river and decided to see if I could fall in crossing them (that really was the whole reason for stopping). So, Rob heckled and Mary Ellen worked the camera to catch the exact moment I dropped into the river.
Bummer for them, I made it across. Oh well. I'd have to wait till later to find out how cold the water was. The air was in the low teens. A family freaked out to see me out there in just a t-shirt. I was wearing my regular hiking boots and was skating all over. It was just like when I tried walking to work wearing the Rex Kwondo Halloween costume and spent the whole way just trying to stay on my feet. The hard rubber in the soles was killer on the ice. I ate it a bunch of times on the way back down the trail. Anyway, here I am coming back from the other side:
So, it was a pretty fun hike despite the cold. Eventually we made it. Treated Mary Ellen to some good food (reces easter eggs, and a couple cans of pringles for lunch). Then pretty much started falling through the ice all over. Rob almost fell in after walking out onto this big pool covered in ice. The whole thing caved in with a big whump and we all laughed pretty hard. Then I soaked a foot coming back from the other side of that spot. Dumped the camera in the snow, too. So that was the end of that lens for the day. But, we were finally at the falls which were pretty cool. I've been dying to see what they looked like frozen since a trip from a few years back.
So, Mary Ellen wanted to head back but Rob and I had some more stupid stuff to take care of. I wanted to get a bit closer but thought the ice was thin (since I had a wet foot and Rob and busted through pretty good even though he didn't get wet). Here's Rob going across this other pool to put my gloves on the other side so I'd fall in while retrieving them...
Well, it didn't work but trying to get one last portrait picture of me and the falls I totally fell into water up over my knee trying to get up on that log on the left side of that picture. Mary Ellen was to far away to hear the splash but she knew there'd been an accident from all the laughing coming from down on the ice. Pretty fun trip though. I want to get back up here in the summer and maybe get up behind the water falls again like Adam and I did a few years back...
Well, more pictures of the ordination etc. tomorrow I gots to get the dogs fed and to bed...
Being the world champion dork that I am we came across these trees across the river and decided to see if I could fall in crossing them (that really was the whole reason for stopping). So, Rob heckled and Mary Ellen worked the camera to catch the exact moment I dropped into the river.
Bummer for them, I made it across. Oh well. I'd have to wait till later to find out how cold the water was. The air was in the low teens. A family freaked out to see me out there in just a t-shirt. I was wearing my regular hiking boots and was skating all over. It was just like when I tried walking to work wearing the Rex Kwondo Halloween costume and spent the whole way just trying to stay on my feet. The hard rubber in the soles was killer on the ice. I ate it a bunch of times on the way back down the trail. Anyway, here I am coming back from the other side:
So, it was a pretty fun hike despite the cold. Eventually we made it. Treated Mary Ellen to some good food (reces easter eggs, and a couple cans of pringles for lunch). Then pretty much started falling through the ice all over. Rob almost fell in after walking out onto this big pool covered in ice. The whole thing caved in with a big whump and we all laughed pretty hard. Then I soaked a foot coming back from the other side of that spot. Dumped the camera in the snow, too. So that was the end of that lens for the day. But, we were finally at the falls which were pretty cool. I've been dying to see what they looked like frozen since a trip from a few years back.
So, Mary Ellen wanted to head back but Rob and I had some more stupid stuff to take care of. I wanted to get a bit closer but thought the ice was thin (since I had a wet foot and Rob and busted through pretty good even though he didn't get wet). Here's Rob going across this other pool to put my gloves on the other side so I'd fall in while retrieving them...
Well, it didn't work but trying to get one last portrait picture of me and the falls I totally fell into water up over my knee trying to get up on that log on the left side of that picture. Mary Ellen was to far away to hear the splash but she knew there'd been an accident from all the laughing coming from down on the ice. Pretty fun trip though. I want to get back up here in the summer and maybe get up behind the water falls again like Adam and I did a few years back...
Well, more pictures of the ordination etc. tomorrow I gots to get the dogs fed and to bed...
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Just like old times eh? I love it! "Rob heckled????" Nawwww. So imagine a fruity old time radio announcers voice... And this week on stupid human tricks we're off to southeast Alaska folks, to watch Clavin and Hobbes deal with spring fever... Hee! So the Captain of the Polar Bear Club was enjoying the mild spring in sitka and M.E. was Thinking "I don't remember it being this cold." And Jauque L.B. Hobbes had witticisms for all no doubt.
Yeah, no surprise it was a fun trip back to the falls. That picture of him on the ice in front of the falls was me deviously trying to get him to fall through the ice. I talked him into taking my gloves and putting them as far from the edge as he felt comfortable hoping of course that the ice would break from his weight rather than mine... no such luck.
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