Sunday June 28 - Conservation trail at Hunters Creek Park - Near Aurora/Buffalo NY - 5 miles about 450 feet elevation gain

This hike had such glowing reviews on Alltrails and some of them mentioned that it wasn't very wet or muddy and it was very well marked and beautiful. After a nice long dry spell we had a wet few days and going someplace minimally muddy was appealing.  I think the Alltrails comments were well founded.  There were a lot of slightly muddy spots but that is as much because this section of the conservation trail is very popular with mountain bikes as anything.  The trail started out with a good little climb along a gorge over a creek (Hunters creek I guess).  While I was glad to be out on the trail, it was pretty warm and humid and part of me wasn't really into hiking.  I kind of power walked up the hill leaving Brian a bit behind. As the hike progressed my mood improved somewhat.  The trail mostly was near the creek and eventually was impressively high above the creek but there were spots where the trail was out in the open briefly and at the point where we turned around it came to a paved road.  Overall, for a somewhat wet and humid warm Sunday this was about as good as it could be.










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