March 23rd 2013 Saturday Hiking Allaire State Park

March 23rd 2013

Today we decided to HIKE with
the bike club instead of riding.
It was a nice Sunny day but a tad Windy.
AND we could bring Chester – something we
cannot do if we are biking, Win Win situation.
We all get exercize & enjoy the beautiful day outside.

Chester snarfing on our way to meet our group for a Hike at Allaire State Park.He’s a HAPPY DOG 🙂

Chester Driving – he’s a guy – thinks he knows the way……

We have arrived at Allaire State Park. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/allaire.html A state park in NJ, about an hour from Ivyland.

Me & Chester!The Hike Leaders brought their dog Brindle.

off we go – a group of 7 plus 2 dogs

Chester really wanted to be the Lead Dog & eventually got there!

We came upon this though we weren’t quite sure what they were doing – something with the wires high up in the sky. Somewhere I’d prefer not to be on a windy day!

Hiking down into the Sand Pit.The State Park was near the Seashore. Somewhat close to where I play beach volleyball.

Cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. This one kind of toppled over.In Scotland, before warriors would go into battle, they would toss a stone onto the cairn. When the warriors returned from battle, they would take a stone off. The stones that remained showed how many warriors the tribe had lost. Today, cairns are used to mark things in nature, like trails, or good places for gold mining. I wonder what this one is marking?

We stopped here for a lunch break.

Chester – in the lead…finally! He was sniffing a mountain biker of which we saw many.

WEASEL – exhausted & she didn’t even go hiking with us!   *************************************** you can see all the pictures from today’s hike here: http://helenspicturesoftheday.shutterfly.com/pictures/1726 *************************************** To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.