Sunday, August 20, 2017

Mine des Barbouilliers

Distance: 5.4 km (hike only).  Elevation low/high/total: 30/424/462 m.
Difficulty:3.5/10  Scenic: 5.8/10
https://goo.gl/photos/64G9mUVjiKpaY8i7A
Finally out and about on a new hike.  Pics are here and gpx is here

Well, it took 5 months, but finally Paul and I found a common time to join up for a hike.  Given that I just had (another) knee surgery, we choose a relatively easy hike.  Paul and I both have a new dog and they are amazingly similar looking.  Mine is the small one above, a female named Carlos (I didn't name her) and his is a male named Kenai (like the Alaska peninsula/river).  The trek was a slow climb up an old logging road to a long abandoned mining site.  the weather was so-so and even started to rain a little at the end.  But, with my recovering knee and Paul's problematic ankle, this was just the right level of difficulty and hopefully we'll be back to bigger hikes soon.