A beautiful sunny day- 56 when we started and 74 at the finish. Supposed to rain the next three days so we wanted to get in a good one today. Kelley seems fine again and ready to go.
This time we started from the North Trail head and you can follow our route on the map above- this map sometimes confuses us but we did pretty well today.
The more open areas had flowers
The woods trails were quite nice today.
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When we reached the Spruce Trail it was confusing as usual ( partly I think, because the bikers don't use it much. The first time we did these trails we came in on the Spruce Trail, lost our way, and after finding the pond spent a long time finding the trail back. Today we found an old sign that said " Shore Trail " and followed what looked like a trail . It was little used and sometimes almost obscured.
But it did take us to the Shore Trail at the pond.
Click for a larger pano version on Flickr
and a couple of normal shots of the pond
Part of the Shore Trail
I had seen a lot of dragonflies but none that would let me get close. I finally got a couple but still with poor backgrounds.
We met one man on his bike with his dog Baxter and then again near the end when his dog had run off - we heard him calling before we saw him. He had called people to go to the trail head because of the road. All of a sudden Kelley perked up and stared down the trail. we looked up and saw Baxter running toward us. Everybody was happy- especially Tom and Kelley.
This was a very pleasant hike on a beautiful day. 3 hours
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