We pinkey swore that we would go for a swim no matter how cold it was.....Little did we realize that we would be hiking through an intense thunder storm!!
We drove up to the Lukens Lake trailhead and arrived there just as the clouds were rolling in. As I laced my boots we heard some thunder but, hey, Tyler was only visiting for a few days and we were determined to go jump in a lake!!
It's just .8 miles to the Lake. We made it .7 miles when the rain started and the thunder boomed and the lightning flashed!! We stayed in the trees as much as possible....We walked around to the far side of the lake and decided to eat lunch a bit downhill and away from the lake......
"Is that all you got??!!!"...I exclaimed as we started hiking back.....
Well, it's not nice to mess with Mother Nature...as it turned out, she had WAY "more than that"...
It was a torrential downpour, with thunder and lightning, SO MUCH LIGHTNING!! and HAIL!!...
We were both wearing shorts, Tyler had on his Chacos, but luckily we both brought our rain shells....
We needed them too...we were soaked to the bone...we ran some of the way through areas with fewer trees...Made it back to the car cold and laughing and the storm really let loose then!! Drove through hail/sleet/snow down to the Valley....Good Times!!
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