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| Hiking | 6.13 Miles |
1,414 AEG |
| | Hiking | 6.13 Miles | 3 Hrs 21 Mns | | 1.83 mph |
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| no partners | | Started from the parking area along Bull Creek Road, where I had hiked 3 years ago and headed the other way. This time I headed westbound and hiked to past where I left from 17 years ago when I hiked the first section of the RCT that I've done.
This is basically a suburban trail, and yet at times it can seem remote. This section parallels a highway, whose traffic you can year, but at times it's quieter as you get away and the chirping birds begin to drown it out a little. The majority of this hike was in the shade of the trees, even as the sun got higher in the sky. The temperature was pretty cool for the majority of the hike, although the humidity was high enough to be completely soaked in sweat down to my knees when I was done, and I didn't finish my Camelbak.
On the way back I followed a jeep road that took a longer route but avoided the climb over a hill. It was nice to be up higher and look at the ridges in the distance across the deep valleys that this trail crosses into and out of constantly.
The trail was much more maintained that the Twin Lakes Trail I was hiking 2 days earlier. Every summer solstice the Rachel Carson Trail Challenge happens where everyone tries to finish the entire 40-some mile trail in a day, of which very few do. I was content to get this short section in during the morning and call it a day.
No wildlife seen but many deer tracks in the mud. Saw one other hiker and one trail runner. |
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