Last week we had cause to be in Vermont, so we went cross-country skiing at Osmore Pond. According to trails.com, Osmore Pond is a "great" snowshoe and cross-country trail. It is located in Groton Forest State Park, so we parked in a plowed campground and wandered through the campground roads until we hit the pond.
It was a beautiful day and the snow was awesome. The trail, however, was quite possibly the worst cross-country trail we have ever been on. It is a brilliant snowshoe trail, but it was incredibly twisty-turvey and also had a zillion little hillocks, both of which are hard to deal with when you've strapped 6-foot-long boards to your feet. By the time we realized that it was a terrible trail, we were about halfway round the loop and so we were doomed to finish it. I think we'll go back on snowshoes at some point, or on skis to wander around all the camp roads.
In the meantime, webmeadow is closing for the next two weeks as we go to PANAMA! We are super excited to see some sun and warmth and birds and fishes. And if a baby monkey somehow manages to find its way home with us... well, I won't be complaining.
(And just to prove that travelling is always an adventure, the airline just called us and moved our flight so early tomorrow morning that we have to leave tonight, instead of mid-day tomorrow. Sweet.)
