Forest Slugs

Well it's June. Two months since I last posted. I've spent a lot of time procrastinating, hence not posting. Blogging is the least of my problem areas when it comes to getting things done.
This is so not like me.
This past year has lead me in new directions.
Slowing down.
Being 50 gets you thinking......
Like what have I done with my life and what do I want to do with the rest of it.
I've got plenty of ideas, most of which take a considerable amount of money to carry out.
Well I certainly don't have money.
So now what?!
Last week I got impulsive and just decided to throw caution to the wind and booked myself and Lee a room up in Lutsen for the weekend, and took off.
The weather didn't look very promising when we left, in fact it was raining and by the time we got up there Friday night it was pouring. It really didn't look good at all.
Friday Night came and went....and when we awoke Saturday Morning you could hardly see out the window. Fog! Fog like I've never seen before. Thick as pea soup, as the saying goes.
I decided right then and there that I didn't care and we were going to go hiking anyway.
So we got in the car and headed further north to the Canadian Border. Or just short of it anyway. Grand Portage State Park. The fog came and went along the road, at times I was gripping whatever I could get my hands on in fear that we would run into something along the way.
The visibility was next to zero at times. We arrived and geared up. And headed up the path.
By this time the fog had backed off quite a bit. The path to the falls was an easy one. We took a lot of pictures and enjoyed the fact that there were hardly any other tourists around. After we had had enough of the "scenic overlook" we started walking back to the car when we noticed another path that warned us not to take small children with.

Warning! steep inclines and difficult paths 3.6 miles. "Let's do it" so we did.
I'm happy I did. But let me tell you the real warning in all of this.....

"Beware the Forest Slugs"

On just about every tree descending the trail at about just the right height...if you needed to grab hold of a tree...there in lie's a Forest Slug.
Ewwww, what a nasty feeling.
Hikers beware....watch where you grad hold.