I think the Albany County Rail Trail was slightly busier than the Belt Parkway this morning… 🚲 🚶 🚶 🏃 🚲

They really need to add ramp meters to the rail trail as people are queuing up getting on an off the trail. I normally don’t hike the rail trail in nice weather because it is busy but I thought today would be quiet – a pleasant morning but still early on a Sunday morning in January with the forecast for rapidly dropping temperatures and high winds. I was wrong. The trail was packed to the gills in places with dogs, children, bicyclists and joggers. Maybe I should have instead walked out to Five Rivers Environmental Education Center but I knew it would be super swampy out there with the recent rainfall and frost thawed in the ground.