Getting lost in the woods.

Over the weekend, Mr. Incog Nito and i decided to hike to a lake in Lyme, NH. I had been there last year when i went x-country skiing with Gilly, Amanda and Gordie at Green Woodlands. We thought it would be good to get out and do a little training for our big trip to Utah (in June!), maybe do some "horn huntin'" (looking for deer/moose antlers...known also as "sheds"), and explore an area we've not been to before. Nothing too strenuous, or all that breath taking but getting out in an area where not many have explored before.

Anyhow, we were not sure exactly how to get there, as there are no maps of the area...so we sort of figured we might not make it to the lake. We packed a lunch and our fishing poles in our packs (along with a bunch of useless stuff to add weight to the pack....for training purposes), and set off on our little adventure. McKinley even wore his new pack! We saw tons of wildflowers, loads of moose poop, a snake, a grouse (or pheasent), numerous animal prints, an OLD cemetery, a gigantic beaver dam, trees where moose had rubbed their antlers on and no other people. It was fun trapsing around the woods and never really going anywhere. While we never made it to the lake, we came to a few conclusions on this trip:

First, Mr. Incog Nito has a better sense of direction then Brynne does (she has a very poor sense of direction).
Second, Brynne thinks she is right....all the time, even when she isn't.
Third, we need a compass and a map.

Mc With his new pack checking out the beaver dam

A bunch of trees where last year, moose had scraped the velvet off their antlers

Trout Lily (he leaves are supposed to resemble a brook trout)

The only wildlife i saw-

(Side Note: We walked on old logging roads the whole time.....i felt like that was better then walking on small trails. It was also wet out, so things were not all that able to fly around in the air (i.e. stuff like mold...))