Lucky for me, I somehow convinced a hiker from England to go. The water has exceptional clarity, and in the summer months is surprisingly warm for a mountain pond.” I’m sorry, - Did you just use the word ‘nestled’? And ‘spring-fed’ and ‘exceptional clarity’? Then throw in the words ‘surprisingly warm’? I wanted to check this one off my Hiking List as soon as possible but I desired to go with the right people or person. Oh, and there was even this: “Emerald Pond is a beautiful spring fed swimming hole nestled in a small hollow. It was advertised as one that was not too long, not too elevated, had two great vistas. This was supposed to be what I call a “bonding time” hike which, to me, means an easy hike that would have a lot of rewards. There’s a little less than a 1,700 foot elevation.Also at the beginning, we knew this about our Emerald Pond trail: Our directions looked more like an ancient record of the first established civilization than a day hike guide.Īlright but before we roam all over the daggon place, like we did on our hike, let’s begin at the beginning - where spirits were high and we were happy and this was going to be a delightful trip to a gorgeous green jewel-colored pond. barely alive, hardly holding onto hope, wiped out and beaten down, and that was us. See, there is nothing I can tell you (though I will try) that will fully explain how exhausting and rough and sheer madness-at-times this hike was. That tiny paragraph gives the smallest bit of a preview. In fact, when I close my eyes, I still see myself on this trail and wonder, “Oh God! When will it be over?!” That’s the only way I know how to start this post - with a massive period at the end of those two words because this hike had no clear beginning and it definitely had no end.
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