hetch hetchy valley hike and meadow setup

yes, i said meadow setup.  how else would you have a do-it-yourself, cooke-crafted matrimonial bit of ballyhoo?  exactly.  the hike was beautiful, full of butterflies and wildflowers – so many photo ops it took the troupe 4x as long to get out to the waterfall as it did to get back.  as for the meadow, cooke had vision and it was amazing, as per the usual.

when we returned, the rest of the umass contingent had arrived (yay!) and the festivities really got rollin’ …