Due to a messed-up wrist (from riding a rigid CX bike for entirely too many miles where a mountain bike would be more appropriate), I've been doing a lot more hiking lately. Specifically, along the Tuxachanie Trail. Highway 49 to Airey Lake two weeks ago, attempted Airey Lake to the P.O.W. Camp (well, ex-P.O.W. camp; it's a leftover from WWII and only a few concrete items are left). "Attempted," last week because there were some navigation errors involving unclear trail markings at an intersection with a horse trail. Anyway, back to this weekend, hiked again from Hwy 49, past Airey Lake, and on to Copeland Spring.
Well, here are the picks of the multitude of digital photos. Some of them may even have captions. I'll leave them small, but you can click to embiggen.
Pond near the Hwy 49 trailhead:
Pine lizard on the first big bridge, about a mile in:
Rabbit!
A nice stream crossing:
Another pine lizard:
Me, next to Copeland Spring.
Another nice stream crossing. Lots of little bridges and waffle-block crossings.
Well, that was a fun for three weekends, but it's getting a little too warm for five hour hikes to keep on being fun. Might start doing it again next fall. But I'm looking forward to this wrist finishing the healing (better every day, thanks) and getting back on the mountain bike where I belong.
Yep, going to use that bridge lizard as a desktop for a while. Just lucky to get close enough to take that one with how skittish they are.
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