Hiking in the dark

Went up to VT this past weekend for Get Ho Get Leid. On Friday Jason and I hiked up Mt. Mansfield, had a picnic at the top, and then used his headlamp and the full moon (It's better to be lucky than savvy) to hike down in the dark.

Unfortunately the weather on Sat. and Sun. was intended more to encourage the continued lushness of the green mountain state than to facilitate good ultimate. Due to lightning on Sat. and cold, windy rain on Sunday and a Rochester team that demurred in playing out a consolation game we got a total of 3.5 games of ultimate out of the weekend. A bit disappointing, but these things happen.

Middlebury does seem to have a few things going for it: Noonies sandwich shop where I had the Vermonter and the Purple Passion, Flatbread where our team cleaned them out of the venison braised in tomato and redwine, wild leek and fiddlehead special, and Otter Creek, who were selling the remainder of their winter lager for nickels on the bottle. Also I would not be surprised if someone told me Middlebury has the best athletic facilities of any Div III school.

Good trip, glad to be sleeping in a bed again.