Sue Olson, Kathy Kelleher and I have developed a strategy for hiking in the winter. We meet at Kathy's house on Saturday mornings no matter what the weather. We usually have some idea of where we want to go and if the weather is bad we have an array of Plan B's to choose from.
Last weekend was typical. It was raining and though we wanted to snowshoe, the snow level was so high we'd be in rain no matter where we went. That morning, as I drank my coffee and listened to the latest depressing weather report, I hoped somebody would chicken out.
By Karen Sykes | December 23, 1999
