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| no partners | | Cool, cloudy, threat of rain. What else to do but to hike? I packed a tuna sandwich and went up this short, steep trail to the Elydia Davis Bench in the upper saddle. I thought of going on east to the trail's end but scotched that idea. Just wasn't into it.
Sitting there, eating and minding my own business, I heard a dog barking behind me and a man's voice yelling at it to stop. I didn't turn around even though my vet told me to never turn your back on a German shepherd, not that I knew what kind of a dog it was approaching. More frightened was a man who had come up the trail from a different direction, and was relieved when the owner leashed the dog before it got much farther. This guy looks at me and says, "Well, if the dog came after us, I knew I could out-run you." I just sat there looking at him blankly. "It's a joke," he said, before taking an uphill route on an unmarked trail. Idiot.
I popped out my Canon and shot a few photos. I'm falling in love with dark, subtle shots, and this was a great day for those. I go through obsessions like this.
Anyway, I'm getting in better shape. I reached the saddle without stopping once to allow my wind to regroup. From the parking lot at the end of Squaw Peak Dr, I got up to the saddle in 19 1/2 minuutes, and came down in 16. Pretty good for me. The poppies, so flashy the day before, were closed up in hiding under the overcast. |
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