Thursday, July 7, 2011

Wells Creek Road

I see Blogger has a new template out there, and the bugs are so very obvious. But in any event, I'm going to try to publish a new post. It's not easy these days, being a blogspot blog, is it? I can't see how I can change the size of my picture, it's missing as of right now (fixed it!). But if you click on it, you should be able to see it in full size. With me behind the camera, here are the other thirteen Senior Trailblazers.

Today, fourteen of us headed up to the Wells Creek Road to hike yet again on a road. It was nice and wide, but the difference between a road hike and a trail hike are very evident to my legs. Right now, after eleven miles on a hard surface up and back, my legs are complaining, and I know I wasn't alone.

Norm wanted to take a picture using his camera, with me in it, but once he got into position, he couldn't figure out how to turn it on!
Well, if I turn this knob, or if I make this adjustment, it should work. But you know, it didn't. Here is what we looked like as we watched Norm trying to figure out how to take his picture:
Finally, though, he said it worked (I have no proof) and we set out on the road. We hiked fairly gently uphill and finally stopped for lunch right around noon right at Barr Creek. The road from here goes fairly steeply uphill, and we had a very nice break before turning around and heading back down.
Here you see Carol and Amy sitting under the bridge as Barr Creek runs by. Both this creek and Wells Creek join at the place where we began this hike to make the very impressive Nooksack Falls. Today we repeated what we did last week: leave sunny Bellingham to head to the High Country and walk in clouds and even a bit of rain. We didn't have a view, although there is a fantastic view of Mt. Baker somewhere behind the clouds.
Today, however, the only real view we got was at the end of the hike, when some people walked over to see the Falls, and Amy, our Social Secretary, brought out the cupcakes to celebrate Mike's 70th birthday. We can always count on Amy to remind us when an event needs to be borne in mind. And this was one I wouldn't want to miss!
Happy birthday, Mike (also known herein as Mikey Poppins), and many more to come! Today we covered eleven miles, or perhaps a little more, and around 1,400 feet elevation gain and loss. It was a day that we will keep in mind as Mike moves into his eighth decade. I'm a little jealous, since I have to wait more than a year for that event. We all wish you many more hikes and birthdays!
:-)

18 comments:

  1. happy birthday mike! eh, you still got out...and just hang in there...i am sure the template will change...lol...groan

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  2. The pictures looked great. I miss the massed tulips, but the new header is lovely too. And the hike sounded very, very good (albeit a tad too challenging for some of us).

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  3. Happy Birthday, Mikey Poppins!!
    Looks like a wonderful hike with a great group of people. :):)

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  4. Happy Birthday Mike!

    It sounds like a fun hike even with the clouds. I like the template with the mountains. You can always change picture size in HTML.

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  5. Pretty cool, going on an 11 mile hike to celebrate your 70th birthday. You "old people" are amazing.

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  6. I'm with you . I would far rather hike a trail than a road.
    Walked up sunshine ski hill on a road once. 10 kms of hairpin curves. Good thing we had a truck volunteer to take our heavy packs.

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  7. I think you oldsters are just wonderful...being even older I tell.

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  8. Wow, you had a nice time with your friends and got to eat cake, too. Can't get any better than that. Sorry your legs hurt from hiking on the road. Hope they feel better tomorrow.

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  9. I'm trying out the new post editor and it does more, but it's also got its quirks. I'm also finding it easier to use the Firefox browser to do my Blogspotting. For some strange reason Blogger doesn't like my new Explorer.

    Looks like you had a really strenuous hike. I do admire your energy and it makes me feel guilty.

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  10. Uh oh. I don't like when Blogger make changes. ;) It looks like another fun hike. Happy Birthday to Mike.

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  11. Lovely header collage, DJan. You and your hiking buddies it seems...have as much fun talking as walking!

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  12. Fourteen hikers, wow. Great turn out. You always sound so enthusiastic when you show the pictures and talk about a hike. You are jealous of Mike turning 70 and I am jealous of you strength and endurance.

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  13. I'm always in awe of you and your adventures. It's sad that it took needing help with a rescue to get me back to blogging again!

    I need to find you on fb. I've been pretty consistent with that and I know we're friends there!!!

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  14. This was a happy, uplifting post. Your group of fellow hikers all seem to be great people. Happy Birthday to Mike.

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  15. One of my blogger friends just lost all her photos somehow. Now I'm worried. And of course the follower/photos/links have been gone a long time. And I don't think you can even start following new blogs. But I'm still able to check up on the hiking adventures of DJan thankgoodness!

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  16. Happy Birthday Mikey Poppins! It looks like you all had fun..except for the hard packed earth..it does make a difference:)

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  17. What a great group of friends you have there! And I just love that picture with the clouds. Do you find it hard to breath when you get up that high?

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  18. Just use the html side instead of preview and in html you can change the size yourself or on the preview side you can click on a picture and the blue bar to change the size appears magically at the top. I looked a lot this morning and swore several times before I looked up and there it was.

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