Posted in Hiking with the Trail Dames, Photography, Travel Adventures on 05/19/2010 09:37 pm by Donna
Hello Friends! I have missed you! I have been away from writing for a few weeks but I have been keeping up reading all your lovely blogs and adventures! Speaking of adventures, I want to share my new adventure. I joined a wonderful women’s hiking group in April and I have completed two hikes with the wonderful, amazing, Trail Dames! Trail Dames is a hiking group started by the lovely Anna Huthmaker. I was looking to join a club of sorts where I could meet new friends that share common interests. One trip to Google and I found a site calledMeetup. Meetup is a site where you type in your interests and your zip code and they pull up hundreds of different groups to join. I enjoy the outdoors and love hiking so when I found Trail Dames I was super excited! I read their bio and recognized Anna! My older son attended Violin lessons at her Violin shop Huthmaker’s. On hike days we meet up at Huthmaker’s to gather, sign in and carpool. The shop is 5 minutes from my house so perfect! This was meant to be.
On April 18th, I met the Dames, signed in and hopped in car with three lovely ladies that I had never met and started out on a 2 hour drive to the trail. When we stopped at Starbucks I knew this was a good thing for me! My first hike with the Trail Dames was to Springer Mountain and we climbed up to the Southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. The climb itself was .9 miles up and back down. Not a long distance but so fun and so beautiful! This hike was an anniversary hike for the Dames celebrating their 3rd Birthday. Springer Mountain was the first hike for the group so every year they go back there to celebrate. Celebrate we did! We popped the Champagne and had chocolate, and strawberries when we reached the top of the mountain. Really! How awesome is that?!