Well, it is "an official record of days with measurable precipitation," according to Jackie Purcell, Channel 2 weather woman. It's really too bad concerning my hiking challenge because getting outside in heavy rain seems to be my biggest obstacle. Like today, it is pouring outside and I lazied around with the overwhelming thought of staying warm, dry and inside. But ..... in the evening as the kids went to cross-country running practice Bob and I did go to a local favorite trail - Tonsina. It is a jeep road, rocking trail, beach walk that goes by two lovely, large creeks and comes to a lowland sandy beach with high, bright green grasses and skeleton, gray tree remnants left by the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. It is a lovely place but it is just flat out difficult to stay dry and move at the same time. If you wear Helly Hansen then the sweat from the inside is a problem and if you wear Gortex then the water gets in some how especially around the neckline and sleeves. Oh well - such is life in a temperate rainforest. My new mantra - pray for sun!
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