more than pink walk

Cross that out. Make that the More Than Pink HIKE. 

I signed up to to the virtual More Than Pink Walk. It replaced the madhouse Koman walk in Philadelphia on Mother's Day which was canceled due to C19. I invited Angel and the Teen to come along. The teen wanted to go to Emmaus and walk on Main Street and go to the farmer's market.

They arrived while I was on the phone with Barb. I gave the teen her 6th Birthday present (she turned 16 Tuesday), a decade late. It was a story her dad wrote when she was 5-6. I illustrated it and put it into book form. It was trimmed wrong, but she liked it anyway. She had a debut reading of it in my living room, in front of the patriotic decorations for Lydia's wedding.

Then we were off to walk. I offered choices and the teen decided we should walk in the woods first. We went to Alpine Park. It was busy. The lot and the street was full. I'm guessing there was a lot of people in the park, but we did encounter other hikers in the woods. We chose the shorter Alpine Street Trail. 

I know. I know. My mask is wrong.

This trail started out as gravel/crushed stone, and quickly becomes dirt. The start was pretty muddy but it didn't stay that way. The teen led the way and was always yards ahead of us. To be 16 again. 

She navigated. I told her the orange and red markers faded to the sime color so be sure it always said Alpine Street on the marker and it did. But we still apparently did something wrong because we ended up backtracking and retracing our steps. Angel took a lot of photos.

I think the highlight of the trail for the teen was this giant rock that she climbed. I suggested the next time maybe go to Big Rock Park.

The point of these virtual events is to have exposure for the organization you're walking to support.  I don't think this is the kind of walk that Koman had in mind, but they said to 'make it your own". And we interacted with several people on the trail so a few saw my event tee. We would have seen more people of in town.

Miles/Steps:    2+

Bathrooms:      none
Wildlife:           none.
Weather:         88, 50% humidity seemed higher!), sunny.
PPE Found:      NONE! until I stepped out of the car near my house. I stepped right on a mask.