Camel's Hump: second highest spot in Vermont, second time

Walkin' Blues by I forget who

Saturday, June 22:
same weather, same pants, different peak, VERY hot feet

Strawberries

They have finally arrived.

We accept the Strawberry family's regal arrogance

because old-fashioned,

local strawberries are

A W E S O M E!!

PSTVD: Long-winded self-aggrandizing self-centered hiking rant

I acquired Post-Swiss Traumatic View Disorder
while going over all the photos from last summer's Swiss hiking trip.

Did I really need 21 pictures of that cloud?

REALLY??

The Matterhorn is nice and all but 56 photos of it????

I DON'T THINK SO!!!!

So I decided I needed an adventure to cleanse my esthetic lens.

I was slow getting started because I also acquired

Post-Swiss Traumatic Hiking Clothes Disorder from looking like

Klutz Bag:

The Incredible Shrinking Hiker

soooooo....

I spent a lot of time rooting though my stuff looking for a pair of hiking pants that made me feel like

Old Lady Sexy Bod Tight Pants.

Note: PSTHCD is frequently confused with an obscure condition acquired from smoking too much Thai stick while on holiday in Switzerland.

OK, back to the matter at hand. I finally found a pair of black, hip hugging, stylishly belled hiking pants that I had dismissed years ago as being "too young" for me. WOO HOO!! Just what I needed for this adventure.

I decided to walk to the highest spot in Vermont. Long time readers with an intact organic google function in their wetware will recall that I had been close to that spot before. All others click here

===>  MOUNT MANSFIELD #1

Mt. Mansfield #2 Salient Points:

(1) Gorgeous Day

(2) GREAT PANTS !!!!!!
(Yes, I know that there are now twelve (12) exclamation points in this post, but so far I have not received any warnings from the Blogger Police regarding profligate exclamation point usage.)

(3) HUGE yummy gluten free cookie to think about on the uphill slog

(4) Enough uphill slog to provide respite from the daily drone of horizontal walking

(5) You didn't think it would be lonely at the highest spot in Vermont on a gorgeous day, did you?

(6) The reason I could get there this time was becuase I came at it from a different direction, so I hiked past the summit until I found the cliff that had stopped me 2 years ago.

I WIN!!

  

You Think You Know A Place But...

One Of The Things I Learned
From Got Dinner
On That Thursday He Took Me All Over The Cellar

Note:  

This information contributes to the development

of a deep understanding

of important stuff.

The cellar closet that was used for

secret banana box lid storage

used to be

THE ONLY BATHROOM IN THE STORE!

This pic serves a two-fold purpose:

(1)
to remind you of the weirdness of having a secret banana box lid storage closet in the cellar of a general store

and

(2)
to show you

THE GRAFFITI!!!!

You didn't know we have graffiti, right?

Well, we do.

Becuase we are special.

It is not the ONLY graffiti either.

But you will have to wait for the other graffiti

becuase this post

IS ABOUT A BATHROOM!

O N W A R D... 

LEFT OVER TOILET PAPER FROM THE OLD DAYS!!

How amazing is THAT??

Imagine this as your only bathroom option.

Not all that much privacy involved.

Those were different times.