Location:Highland Recreation Area

Hiked with: myself and a podcast from OnBeing

Route/trail: Haven Hill Trail

Weather: overcast, 40 degrees

Duration: 2 miles, 30 minutes

Sightings: a heron, many ducks, and a person using a leaf blower (boo hiss)

Emotions, etc: felt good to start the week in the woods despite it being overcast

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Hiked with: Gary

Route/trail: Seawall from the convention center through Stanley Park and then back through the city

Weather: 62 and sunny with a light breeze

Duration: all day (Sunday, 4.19.15), 21 miles

Altitudes/elevations/conditions: mostly flat

Sightings: sailboats, skulls, yachts and ships, seagulls, totem poles, mountains, ocean, an amazing bridge, a working canon and fires at 9 p.m. everyday, a seal, amazing public art in large ways of sculpture but also in small pieces like the manhole covers decorated with native peoples symbols, masses of tulips, friendly people

Gear/food: a lunch stop for Mongolian bar-b-que and an afternoon recharge from locally made gelato

Emotions, etc: what a treat to have an entire day like this...was so relaxed

 

Location: West Bloomfield Nature Preserve

Hiked with: Gary

Route/trail: the loop

Weather: sunny, 60 degrees

Duration: 2.4 miles, 46 min.

Altitudes/elevations/conditions: hilly for Michigan, crushed gravel paths

Sightings: more like a "hearing"....many noisy frogs

Emotions, etc: Being outside today was so therapeutic. The walk was reminiscent of being in the woods in Pennsylvania. I would like to come back later in the spring to see the baby Blue Heron's

Location: Dodge Park V

Hiked with: myself

Weather: 52 degrees and not a cloud in sight

Duration: 45 min. -didn't track the miles

Altitudes/elevations/conditions: a little muddy

Sightings: bits of green emerging from the brush and children on the playground

Emotions, etc: so filled with energy and happiness to visit the park for the first time since it turned really cold...ready for spring!