UPitP- Day three of our "calamity" days, ie no e-learning- March 18
Alternatively titled: The day the rain came
Wednesday was the third unplanned school day off for the students and second to last no e-learning day for the students. Do I sound like I'm ready for e-learning to commence? I do believe I am ready for that e-event.
With rain in the forecast, with likely imminent travel restrictions, with no cultural or recreational indoor places to go, the girls and I eschewed our morning schedule (all two days of it!!) and decided to go to on a hike at a county park. Not one of our county parks, rather one from up north, two counties away. Even though it was two counties away, it was only a thirty five minute drive.
Our destination was Charleston Falls Park, outside of Tipp City (the park appeared to be closer to Vandalia but the address was Tipp City). I'd read about the park before and was reminded of it yesterday. I saw a picture of the park and the falls and thought it would be a picturesque destination. Plus, in reading about it, the hike to the falls sounded easy and it apparently doesn't take long from the beginning of the trail to get to. My sense of direction is not good and I didn't fancy getting lost in the woods. A destination point in the hike that did not take long to get to sounded ideal to me.
The day was supposed to get up to fifty two degrees which sounded much better than the 34 degrees it was at 8:00 am but it was also supposed to start raining in the afternoon. Therefore a morning, dry though nippy, hike made the most sense. We arrived at the park around 10:30. My phone said that Tipp City would be 43 degrees at 10:30; when we emerged from our car at the park, the mercury at Tipp was topped out at a chilly 40 degrees. We were dressed for cool weather so it didn't matter- also we didn't choose to hike that day because we were expecting the most ideal weather in the world at which to hike.
The paths were clearly marked (thank you, Charleston Falls Park) and they were super wide. That made social distancing actually possible. There were a number of people out in the park but with the wide paths we didn't feel like we were thumbing our noses at the social distance edict.
Shortly after we began walking, we could hear the unmistakable sound of water cascading over rocks and into a pool of water below. I took quite a few pictures and will let them to do the talking.
This sign worried me a little bit... icy paths? Fortunately, there were no icy paths. Maybe it's just a sign that stays up during the winter?
What lurks in the woods past sunset such that no one must enter past sunset? I'm not about to find out?
I like the unambiguity and brevity of these signs :)
Wednesday was the third unplanned school day off for the students and second to last no e-learning day for the students. Do I sound like I'm ready for e-learning to commence? I do believe I am ready for that e-event.
With rain in the forecast, with likely imminent travel restrictions, with no cultural or recreational indoor places to go, the girls and I eschewed our morning schedule (all two days of it!!) and decided to go to on a hike at a county park. Not one of our county parks, rather one from up north, two counties away. Even though it was two counties away, it was only a thirty five minute drive.
Our destination was Charleston Falls Park, outside of Tipp City (the park appeared to be closer to Vandalia but the address was Tipp City). I'd read about the park before and was reminded of it yesterday. I saw a picture of the park and the falls and thought it would be a picturesque destination. Plus, in reading about it, the hike to the falls sounded easy and it apparently doesn't take long from the beginning of the trail to get to. My sense of direction is not good and I didn't fancy getting lost in the woods. A destination point in the hike that did not take long to get to sounded ideal to me.
The day was supposed to get up to fifty two degrees which sounded much better than the 34 degrees it was at 8:00 am but it was also supposed to start raining in the afternoon. Therefore a morning, dry though nippy, hike made the most sense. We arrived at the park around 10:30. My phone said that Tipp City would be 43 degrees at 10:30; when we emerged from our car at the park, the mercury at Tipp was topped out at a chilly 40 degrees. We were dressed for cool weather so it didn't matter- also we didn't choose to hike that day because we were expecting the most ideal weather in the world at which to hike.
The paths were clearly marked (thank you, Charleston Falls Park) and they were super wide. That made social distancing actually possible. There were a number of people out in the park but with the wide paths we didn't feel like we were thumbing our noses at the social distance edict.
Shortly after we began walking, we could hear the unmistakable sound of water cascading over rocks and into a pool of water below. I took quite a few pictures and will let them to do the talking.
This sign worried me a little bit... icy paths? Fortunately, there were no icy paths. Maybe it's just a sign that stays up during the winter?
What lurks in the woods past sunset such that no one must enter past sunset? I'm not about to find out?
I like the unambiguity and brevity of these signs :)
The falls...
Alyssa took this pano shot
gnarly...
If the opening of this cave looks small, it's because it was! We didn't venture inside it.
Wide paths!
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