A Little Jaunt

We only had a short period of time with which we could hike, so we headed just up the road to the Pine Valley Mountains, accessing them from the town of New Harmony. We were the only car at the trailhead when we parked and with a small bit of difficulty, found the trail. It took us next to a fence at first, but soon we were in the lush green setting of the Pine Valley Mountains. The trail was good and not overgrown as you come to expect when entering that wilderness area. We were on the trail for a good bit of time before we finally lost it for the first time. When we backtracked we found where it was, but our day was short. The wedding planning and our upcoming move had us busy, not getting enough time in the outdoors. We turned around at the point where the trail seemed to switchback up into the mountains. It is always hard to turn around, but we were intending to have a short hike, so this is what we came for. On the way down, we found a local clearing out the trail so that he could bring his horse up the trail later. I was glad that someone was doing it because the Pine Valley Mountains have so many miles of trail that are just overgrown.