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Hiking | 11.30 Miles |
4,382 AEG |
| Hiking | 11.30 Miles | 6 Hrs 47 Mns | | 1.78 mph |
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| partners | | We were planning to do this one the day the Backbone Fire blew up and closed the road. Then the forest closed. Patience is a virtue and we took a raincheck for another date. A little bit low flow and some marginally stagnant pools if you looked hard, but for the most part, as nice as always. The poison ivy seems unaffected by drought but a thorough scrubbing seemed to do the trick. Got buzzed as I stepped over a rattler within a couple hundred yards of the one I saw last year. Never saw him in the knee-deep grass, but upon getting a few feet away noticed blood running down my ankle and what looked like a pair of puncture wounds. Hadn't felt anything, and so far no pain or swelling ... heartbeat picked up a bit but decided to push on. No effects set in so we continued on. At home I did a thorough post-shower inspection and concluded it had to be just a couple of perfectly placed common trail wounds. Made for some hike excitement though!  |
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