Caption: One of those really crappy days when everything seems to turn to shades of gray; the TH&B sends a rock extra up the hill southward to Port Maitland. Only unit identified is leader #73, probably on account pen failure when I went to jot the numbers on my hand. It is wet, sticky and about -1C. Wind whipped snow is sticking to the poles. Down the hill at Aberdeen earlier, about 14 miles back, it was but wet slush.