Friday, February 9, 2018

Full Moon Hike in Wissahickon Valley Park

I did a night hike under the super blue blood moon! On Wednesday, January 31, the Wissahickon Environmental Center hosted a full moon hike from 8-9:30 pm. It was really more like a walk than a hike, about 1 ½ miles at a leisurely pace, a little bit of uphill but not steep and overall mostly flat. We walked for about 45 minutes. We could have done a longer route, but our tour leaders opted for the shorter one as the evening temperature was 31 degrees. The relaxed pace made it easy to walk and gaze at the moon and to stop and grab pictures. There wouldn’t have been time to set up my tripod and get shots with my DSLR camera which is what really needed to be done, but a slight sense of community was forged in the collective attempt to get our iPhones to focus.