At this point, May 1st, last year, I was down with COVID and not hiking at all. I was definitely feeling a bit of burnout prior to my April vacation, but some time off and then mountain therapy helped that imensely. I love the Blue Hills, but I miss mountains. Thankfully, I'm balancing my weekday Blue Hills hikes with some more mountainous ones coming up, and reconnected with a college friend who is also working on the NH48! I'm feeling reenergized (or just caffinated) and excited about this second half of spring!
I fell behind on my journaling due to vacation, burnout, and overall laziness, but as of right now I'm fully caught up on writing and just need to do photos for my last three Blue Hills hikes, which isn't too daunting. I'm hoping to be better about keeping up with my journaling - I really do like the process of writing it all down, but I struggle with how I currently structure the process of doing it (do hike, maybe take notes during hike, log in google sheet, put photos on ipad, edit photos, write up step-by-step directions for hike, write journal usually last). I might try to write first before doing photos, at least for the next few weeks as a trial run. We'll see!
And a goals update: I finished my Wachusett Trail Trace, hoping I can get that new patch. I have four more hikes to finish Monadnock Redlining, one of which I plan to do this upcoming Sunday. I might try to ram-jam the Vermont 4ks around the 4th of July. I have my hikes planned for the Harimann Shelter Challenge that I want to finish this summer. I also have two dates for NH48 hikes planned. Going to do something with my college friend and Emma for the 48 Memorial Day weekend (my first 4k without Gen!), and then I have a presumably epic hike planned for Juneteenth weekend (Garfield, Lafayette, Lincoln, Liberty, Flume, down Osseo to Lincoln Woods - maybe sunrise on Garfield??).
Things are looking good!
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