{"id":7884,"date":"2005-12-11T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/11\/inwood-hiking-trails-in-snow\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:50","slug":"inwood-hiking-trails-in-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/12\/11\/inwood-hiking-trails-in-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Inwood Hiking Trails in Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The path leading from points ‘E’ to ‘F’ in the Inwood Hiking Trails
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As I tend to do lately, I headed out to the Inwood Hiking Trails yesterday to go wandering around. I haven’t really been hiking in the snow before, but I figured that a not-too-cold day after a nice snowfall would be a good time to wander around one of my favorite local hiking places.<\/p>\n

Well, despite almost falling through some ice<\/a> and ending up with frozen solid pant legs<\/a> afterwards, it really was a nice walk. It turned out that everyone else who had been there since last week’s big snowfall<\/a> had turned back after only going a few hundred feet into the park<\/a>. That meant that all of the trails were covered with nothing more than animal tracks and nice, fresh, powdery snow<\/a>. At one point I even came across both foot and wing prints from where a bird had landed<\/a> and what appears to be signs of a small animal being dropped in the snow then running away<\/a>. Perhaps from a bird or something?<\/p>\n

The only part that had me somewhat worried was this pathway<\/a> which, in the snow, seems innocent enough. However, if one looks at it in the summer time<\/a> it’s pretty obvious that there is a bunch of marsh and other wet badness which one would not want to accidently fall in. (Although comparing the two pictures, I wonder if they are the same walkway, or similar ones.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a really nice time wandering through the woods. The only problem is that my calves, knees, and hips are horribly sore. I’ve realized that walking through 4″ – 6″ snow for a few hours, including up and down a number of relatively steep hills requires one to walk differently. And that walking differently puts a rather unique load on one’s body.<\/p>\n

Oh and I also scanned in all four ‘pages’ of the flyer which is distributed near the entrance to the Inwood Hiking Trails: 1<\/a> · 2<\/a> · 3<\/a> · 4<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on the map of Inwood Hiking Trails<\/a> I walked about 3.4 miles in the snow. Figuring in little bits of back tracking, wandering a short ways down other trails and other meandering, I’d figure I probably did a total of 3.5 miles, by the end of which I was far<\/em> more tired than if I had done seven miles on dry ground. Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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