No hiking this weekend

For a change, I’m not going hiking this weekend. Earlier in the week, I was thinking about going up Washingon and Monroe. I was probably going to have to solo it too since my usual hiking partners are out of town. Well, on Wednesday or Thursday I started to get sick and today I’ve got all sorts of symptoms. I figure it’s not a wise plan to solo the tallest mountain in the northeast in the middle of a cold front (isn’t that always?) when I’m weakened and ill. Even if I could do it, I wouldn’t enjoy it much. So hopefully next weekend will be better. It’s been about a month now since the last hike, and there’s not too much time left before winter sets in up in the mountains.