Hygge Hike

You can’t say we don’t know how to have fun. 600 luminaries, a good dozen Swedish lanterns, three bonfires. People who figured out how to sew glow strands into their winter jackets and hats. Kids making the most impressive designs out of various glow sticks...

Hundreds of people packing up and coming out to walk a 3 kilometer trail lit up by candles, waiting and sometimes being awarded with a moon glow. Hot chocolate. Two year olds in sleds going the whole route.

It was a perfect night. No wind to chill folks and blow out luminaries. A hard trail one could walk on without snowshoes.

The work the people of NICER did to pull off a crowd event in the middle of the pandemic can’t be minimized. It was tremendous. I hope you can find the places where pictures of the Hygge Hike event are posted. I can’t describe, using my best adjectives what I was able to see on the Montreal Trails tonight.

Thanks to all who set and lit the candles, torches, and bon fires. Thanks to those who made that wonderful, rich hot chocolate. Thanks to those who stayed the event and picked up all those luminaries so that tonight’s snow doesn’t make a soggy mess of them.

The third hike was a huge success. I can’t wait to see what the next one will bring.

Hike freely. Feel Hygge. Z