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Location: Camp Camfield, Green Trail

Distance: 2.34 miles     Elevation Gain 67ft

Time: 1 hour 23 minutes; average pace 35.37 min/mile

Equipment: snow boots (because I still don’t have proper hiking boots); MapMyHike App

Apparently I’m doing obligatory bad selfies with Zella now…

Trail conditions/difficulty: sloppy/mildly challenging. The weather was cool, low 40′s with only a light wind, but positively balmy after the polar vortex. With the warmer weather and snow melt the trails were, predictably, fairly sloppy. Lots of mud and leaf litter and a few scattered patches of ice, but not too slippery all things considered. A few steep-ish hills and several narrow sections of trail meant the dogs had to be off leash for everyone’s safety at several points. Both boys decided they wanted to come along today. The 9yo kept declaring (loudly) that “this is BEAUTIFUL!” He’s not wrong.

Camp Camfield has gotten very popular in the past few years, and there were already 3 cars in the parking lot when we got there. We were passed by a mountain biker and a hiker using trekking poles. Ranger really wanted to keep an eye on the other trail users as they approached, but both dogs did very well and behaved themselves.

The kids’ outside voices did a great job scaring off the local wildlife. But it did mean that the 3 deer that we saw got enough of a heads up that the dogs never saw them.

That tongue really is a limp noodle!

All in all a very relaxing hike!