Another test post, this one written in Henry Coe Park:
Just found a bug in my tent with a stinger about a half-inch long. It had a narrow yellow-and-black striped body, and wings. I smashed it with my bandana, got it, lost it, found it, and threw it out of the tent. I live to hike another day.
I do like that bandana. It’s a thinner weave than most, making it about 1/4oz lighter, and faster to dry. I’ll take faster to dry over absorbent any fast. The bandana is a traditional pattern, but one half is red, the other blue, divided diagonally. This means i can keep the outside and inside consistent. I’m thinking if I only blow my nose on the inside, i might get less pollen in my nose, and so less of a runny nose. Like always this season, my nose was running like mad near park headquarters, probably because of all the white oak trees dumping their pollen.
The park was very, very busy. Compared to Henry Coe’s usual, at least. People were parked on road pull-offs down the road from the backup parking lot, I’ve never seen that. I also saw kids’ groups well into The Narrows, which surprised me – they’re going to have to get up China Hole Trail, or Mile Trail, both of which are quite steep.
The ranger that checked me in was pretty inexperienced. The first thing he said was that the park was full. He was incredulous that someone starting at 3PM would be going out far enough to get past the crowd, into Orestimba. When i told him I wanted to go to Hoover Lake, he called it Hoover Mud Hole, saying it didn’t hold water well. Yet here it is, clearly a lake, right next to me. A chorus of frogs are singing me to sleep. Well, that and melatonin – I shouldn’t have gotten up so late… Let’s see how this new sleep system goes.
Hmm, WordPress displays all my camera’s pictures s greyed-out. Weird.
