While it is increasingly difficult to get to bed by 9 pm or even 8 pm in the darkest days of winter, the early mornings are nice especially when I’m able to be out walking by 6:15 when things are still pretty quiet out.
I started the early bedtime and rises when I did my West Virginia trip and wanted to maximize the daylight by rising early after the time change. But I liked getting that extra daylight in the winter and getting to bed early where I could snuggle under my electric blanket early in the evening during the cold of winter.
The gold standard for summer has still have to be 2020. While it was a werid year with the COVID and the Piseco Powley Road being closed south of Brayhouse Bridge due to the Halloween 2019 storm, it was amazing by all the weeks and long weekends I spent remote working in the Adirondacks, experiencing far more nights in the wilderness than I ever would have otherwise.
Going to be a wet afternoon and evening it seems.
Just dumb luck getting soaked coming into work.