A Nice Morning Walk

I looked at the park map and found although there are miles of trails, there aren’t many loop trails, and there aren’t any trails that start at the campground. So this morning I asked Bud if he would take Matey and me to the far end of Trail 4, so we could walk back from there. He obliged.

It was a well maintained trail through the woods.

Matey and I both enjoyed it.

The trail did have some steep parts, both uphill and downhill.

In many places the trail was covered with acorns. On a very steep downhill, despite my best effort, my foot rolled out on the acorns. I realize this was the perfect opportunity to yell “Oh nuts!”, but I did not. I sank silently to the ground thinking, “That knee doesn’t bend that far.” I was wrong. I sat on the ground waiting for the pain to pass and called to Matey to wait. Unlike Lassie he did not run to my aid; he stood there waiting for the walk to resume. After a moment I got carefully back to my feet and finding myself still operable we kept on.

After just under a mile we were back out on the park roads, but they were quite pretty, too.

Even cutting back through the campground was lovely. We got back to the camper in just under two miles. Despite the unintended deep knee bend it was a nice morning walk.