The trip was interesting
This was a much more successful trip than my first. It continued the theme of something annoying that wouldn’t fucking end, so once again I found myself in the woods screaming fuck every twenty minutes. This time it was the barb-wire fence that wouldn’t end. Twice.
Interesting thing about access to national forests is that they don’t have a gate and toll booth like the national parks. You just drive up, park, and hike. But they put the parking lot on the very periphery for obvious reasons, and the area is usually surrounded by private land. You don’t notice this private land as long as you stay on the trail, but fuck if you do notice it if you get lost. Everytime I thought I had a straight shot out of the park I’d run into another goddamned fence. Eventually I ended up going under one since I couldn’t see where it ended up a steep hill, but fuck if there wasn’t another fence in only one hundred yards. Jackass seemed to own land in some sort of Mandelbrot set kinda shape.
Long story short (well, maybe next time) I turned a twelve to fifteen mile hike into twenty-one miles. I did six yesterday and fifteen today, and that fifteen was brutal. I don’t think I’ll walk right for a week, my arms are sunburned, and I’m covered in little tiny scratches from the damn fir trees on an unmaintained trail. All in all, a great time was had. Pictures to be posted tomorrow.
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ahhh,
ain’t the outdoors great…
kimo
Why yes, they are. Except for the bugs. I could do without bugs.