Road Trips and Hike Reports

Another short but adventurous winter hike.  This trail , named after an area resident who did a lot of volunteer work, was covered in many inches of nearly unbroken snow.  In places it wasn't clear which way the trail went but between the Alltrails app and a lot of scanning for trail blazes we managed to make our way back to the gorge.  The road (Williams road, pictured below) that led to the trailhead looked passable with our snow tires but it was surprisingly soft and slippery. We ended up parking at the junction of Williams road and walking in.  The Inman Gulf is a dramatic canyon of gulf with a creek running through it.  It was partially the same trail we did last year but it felt very different and I think covered different parts of the trail network. Brian was just recovering from being sick and I was just a few days more recovered than he was so we ultimately didn't cover a lot of distance.  What we did cover was spectacular and very deep with snow....

As so often happens, 2024 and our goal of 52 hikes went out with a whimper.  Brian and I both got sick, the weather went to pot and we ended up at 47 or 48 qualifying hikes together for 2024. We're both not totally over the creeping crud that we've been fighting for weeks but it was definitely the first weekend in 3 or more when we both felt almost normal.  We headed out to Buffalo to visit the Science Museum early in the morning.  To be honest, the history museum was pretty disappointing.  I'm glad it was a 'museums on us' weekend from Bank of America because if we each paid 19 dollars to get into that glorified McDonald's PlayLand, I'd have been really bitter.  There were just so many kids, many toddler age or younger and very little for an adult to really dig into.  Buffalo HAS a Children's museum, why does the science museum have to be basically a children's museum too? After the museum I semi randomly drove around looking for a place that might...