So my blackberry began beeping at 5am. I looked outside at the pitch black sky thinking, "Why on earth is my alarm going off?" I rolled over. Ten minutes later I shot out of bed with the sudden memory of my 5:30 rendez vous with VKHF before setting off to tackle the Twins. It's Thursday. It's what we do.
So off we went up the steps. Miserable as usual but with a whole new obstacle.
SPIDERWEBS. They were awful. They were everywhere. It's like the humidity launched a legion of Stanley spiders onto Wilson Trail stage one.
I made VKHF go first. I'm not really afraid of spiders, but she's taller and pays much more attention to details like that. Plus my view of arachnids is muddled somewhere between Charlotte's Web and Arachnophobia, so the thought of getting ensnared in a spiderweb and possibly have a spider crawl all over me was just too much to handle that early in the morning.
VKHF removed all of the spiderwebs from the trail. We were the only people out at that ungodly hour so she had no choice. Most of them she spotted and was able to gently move to one side of the trail or the other, although, she definitely bodychecked a few.
I wasn't so thrilled about the spiderwebs, and VKHF wasn't so thrilled about the stairs. Not our happiest hike, but she got me past the spiderwebs, and I got her up the stairs.
How many more weeks til this crazy quest of mine?
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