CurlyShavings

Note: I'm a Tiger Leader with Cleveland Heights' Pack 4 and occasionally blog on their site. This is a cross post from their latest adventure in Bedford Reservation.

Yesterday (November 7th, 2009) was Pack 4's Fall Hike in Bedford Reservation. We chose to hike a portion of the Buckeye Trail starting at Bridal Veil Falls. Here's a good map of the trails. If you're going to print it to take with you, print it in color! The Buckeye Trail and the Bridle Path join and separate and the path is quite confusing at times. Follow the Blue Blazes!

We started at Bridal Veil Falls (point 3 on this map) and hiked about a mile west to the Tinkers Creek Gorge Scenic Overlook (point 2 on this map).

Certainly the leaves were past peak and even so, it was a beautiful hike. The weather was perfect! I'm not sure how we get such wonderful weather on our outings, but the temperature was warm enough (in November!) for short sleeves.

The Bears made some trail food for the hike (achievement 9e: GORP, without the Peanuts and adding Cheerios and M&Ms), the Tigers took a hike to achieve 5G and the Webelos worked toward their Outdoorsman badge.

The picture is looking upstream from the footbridge at Bridal Veil Falls. The whole afternoon was just full of this wonderful light. The sun is low enough that while the treetops were always lit, the hollows and valleys were largely in shadow. The contrasts were just stunning.