Moriane Hills SP hike

We met Dave and Patti and Len and Marlene at the state park to hike since the weather forecast was not conducive to biking. We supposedly had a "window" of dry weather between 2 waves of the intense storms predicted for today, but partway through a 4 mile hike we were hit by rain and winds with gusts up to 60 miles per hour! Obvious from this photo is the fact that most of us were comfortable despite the conditions -- the only one not smiling is not really dressed for the forecast...



Branches and leaves downed by the storm littered the trail the last 2 miles, and a large branch fell onto the trail just 10 feet behind us at one point, verifying that our decision to cut the hike short was the correct one. Then we drove through the wind and rain and discovered a number of downed branches partially blocking the roadway out of the state park, and also half a dozen traffic lights around Island Lake were out from power outages, but a fantastic breakfast at Walker Brothers made up for any discomfort.