Today, a group of five of us set out to hike one of the 52 With a View, Mt. Pemigewasset. It was a hot and humid day, seems like we've been having a lot of those lately... but we were all happy to be together and "blow a little stink off us", as my neighbor use to say.
About a 1/2 mile to 3/4 mile up, someone says, "is that Thunder?" Why, yes it is! Here, check out the radar! (a cell phone was passed around). About the same time we all start to hear the rain come in from the background.... we scurry to decide, raincoat or not, put the electronics away, pull out the pack cover, and decide, do we turn around or not.
We ultimately decided to turn around, despite our disappointment of not making the summit. The thunder was not a good sign, and the rain had no appearance of "lightning" up.
It was a good decision to turn around, although I couldn't help think about the AT hikers that are out there, and how they just "tough it out". When we got back to the car, we were drenched! Our boots had puddles of water in them, the clouds were still very dark, and the rain was just as heavy. I'm happy we're heading home. The mountain can get climbed another sunny day.
Cheers!
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