Fall Trip to the Ledge

Randy and I decided that since we haven't been up to the ledge yet this year, we'd take a trip up. The weather was forcast to be nice on October 4th so we called my brother Steve to see if he wanted to go with us. He was good for a trip so we were on.

We met at 10am in our backyard and Steve brought his son, Justin. They also brought one of their dogs, Apothis. The day was perfect, sunny, cool and this area is at peak fall color. We moved right along, up the Winnie Rd and right at the base of the mountain. Randy brought along our GPS and he took a way point at the sand pit.

Steve headed us up the mountain. We moved around the base of the cliffs as usual but once at the top of the cliffs, the full year's growth of foliage confused our usual landmarks.

It turned out that we over shot upwards of 300 feet, going pretty much to the top of the mountain and several hundred feet west too. We had to back track and even when we were right on top of the ledge, we still had a hard time recognizing it. We've always been there in the spring, before the leaves had grown out. Just goes to show I guess.

Anyway, we had a nice picnic lunch on the ledge. Randy took several pictures of the view down the river valley.

On the way down, we again had trouble with the increased vegetation and ended up going way too far to the east and ended up backtracking westward to the sand pit. Once there, it was an easy hike out. The whole trip was only 3.5 - 4 hours but we were glad we had the GPS along to make backtracking a little easier.