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| Exhalted Hanumanasana on the summit |
I left the ERD at home and took the husband. We hiked the Champney Falls trail to the
summit. It was muddy with running water
and slippery rocks from the previous day’s rain but it didn’t impact us too
much on the way up.
My husband has legs that are 7 feet long (okay, not really)
so he darts up trails and makes fun of me lagging behind. “Now I
know how the dog feels running back and forth to see where you are,” he
teased. I like to hike at a moderate
pace, but I’m never in a hurry to get to the top. There are too many things to see along the
way. But now something else has been
added to my hikes…hot flashes. Today
they came on in full force. Every 10 to
15 minutes my poor husband would hear me proclaim, “I’m having another one!”
As the elevation increased, my hot flashes decreased with
the cool morning breezes helping keep them at bay. My husband’s and my hiking pace fell into
sync. With the hot flashes behind me, I
got a burst of energy and felt like a mountain goat as I neared the
summit.
We had the summit to ourselves and what a beautiful summit,
more beautiful than I expected. We stayed for a long time and reluctantly left
when the next set of hikers reached the top.
The blazes on the summit are faded in places and I found myself off
trail a few times. We watched as the other hikers missed the blazes bringing them to the summit from the opposite
side.
On the way down we met a couple in the same age group as my
husband and I. The wife had that look on her
face - the look I get when I’m having a hot flash! So what do two 50+ year old women talk about
when they meet on the trail? Hot
flashes! As we discussed our common
woes, the husbands just looked at each other shaking their heads, desperate for
our conversation to end. She was a hoot
and I think we would have a lot of fun on the trail together.
I stopped at the falls on the way down and took a refreshing
dip in one of the pools. I tried to
convince my husband to jump in, but he replied, “I don’t need too, I’m not the one with the hot flashes” ;).
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| Amanita species |
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| Summit benchmark |
Champney Falls and a playful Handstand at Pitcher Falls Gorge
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| Near the summit |
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| Feet in the foreground and me enjoying the summit in the background. |
video of 360 views :_
quick dip in the falls
Love your cloud in hand photo! Have you thought about food and flashes? It is said that Japanese women hardly have them, due to soy products, very little dairy, etc. I had them a little, not very bad (or maybe I was so grateful to be pain-free after many years, haha, that I did not notice them), just kept putting y sweater on and off. I've been vegetarian since 1975, and I think the fake burgers, etc may have helped.
ReplyDeleteHi Beckie, I definitely think what food we eat is a trigger. I've noticed coffee is a trigger for me. Tea & processed sugar too. I love cheese, thank goodness I haven't seen an increase after eating a nice brie ;). Om shanti :)
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