Jackson & Beyond

The plan for Sunday (7/19) is Webster-Jackson trail to Jackson, then on to Pierce and who knows what else. Tentative attendees:

Mr., Mrs., and Riley PuppetMaster

Mr. & Spanky Mutha

Estimated fun factor: High.

mutha's trip report:
Jackson, Pierce, Eisenhower as planned. Aside from the great company and good times, I have only one specific memory: at the end of the hike we stopped at the falls just before the Clinton Road cutoff trail on the Crawford Path. The falls terminate in a frigid pool where we all put our feet in. Well, I kind of sat in to get cold and wet up to my hips.

The PuppetMaster however waded slowly into the deeper part, and standing waist deep in water contemplated going under. After some chit-chat about nothing in particular he suddenly lunged forward in a kind of awkward, but brass-balled dive into the ice-cold, deep pool, shouting:

IN THE NAME OF THE SPIRIT OF TMAIL!!!!

He surfaced, eyes wide, mouth wide open, gasping for breath. His first words were "tMail would've done that! oh god, it's cold!"

It was awesome.
pics here.

The Puppet Master's trip report:
Great fun today. The Jackson 5 attacked the tour and won the fans over, big time!

Beautiful trails between Jackson and Mitzpah. Not too many wackos out - just two angry Lebanese.

My boys just dropped back to normal state - the swim at the end made them crawl somewhere into my northern terminus. Note to self, while standing in freezong cold water, never ask yourself "What would TMail do?" (SPLASH!)

pics here