Look who stopped by to say hello at the house.
Hey Mr. Horse this town isn’t big enough for the both of us!
GA to MT
Before I get into details or pictures I want to make sure I set the backstory.
While continuing to click off the miles for my required 100 miles over the summer Janet and I were looking for a hike that would be long but not too bad. Looking at the trail guides Osprey Falls Trail was marked as moderate.
At this point I must take a pause and help you contemplate the definition of moderate, which is “average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree.” Now let that sit a little bit. Think of some tasks or work that you would consider moderate.
Once you have let those thoughts and feelings of moderate bath over you please join me in the hike of Osprey Falls Trail.
The trail started off like this.
At this point I am thinking moderate, ha this is easy to me. Long and flat is still easy.
This was clue number one that something was off.
At this point was thinking we should be seeing the waterfall, but that was not the case.
The second clue was seeing how far down the water was and the guide said that the trail ended at the base of the waterfall.
We did find some huckleberries.
Well after a long walk down including a moment where I went from being upright to being on my fanny one second later, we arrived at the waterfall.
The water was really flowing.
If you look closely at this picture you can see that Janet looks like she just stepped out of a spa and my eyes are starting to separate and not act in unison. I think it took all my mental capacity to work my phone to take the picture.
Just look at that smile! Janet is the best partner for any adventure.
Now to make the walk back up the hill.
Now I can hear you thinking, “that didn’t look so bad”. Well maybe the pictures didn’t give the correct context. Let me share it another way with just the facts.
Now that ladies and gentlemen is NOT the definition of moderate.
I know I have been missing for a while. I told myself that I would do this for a year, so I want to keep that commitment. I am starting back up, mostly for my loyal fans in France.
It was a nice woodland hike to the top of Purple Mountain. The bad was constantly working. Conductivity was down to an RV park and I was trying to get someone to go out and fix it. Then contractors cut the main power lines on Mt. Washburn where all the main microwave transmitter are for the park. The crisis ended up being avoided, but if it had gone bad all communications to the interior of the park would have gone offline.
Had a funny thing happen on the way out. We saw a car stopped on a turn out with all the doors open. As we went by a man put his thumb out. Since we were in the middle of nowhere I asked Janet to stop the car. She did and I went back to talk with them about what was wrong. The woman looked mortified. The main explained that they were having an argument and he put his thumb out as a joke not thinking that anyone would stop. I think he was in even worse trouble after us leaving.
Found a BBQ place in Emigrant. The owner was from Georgia. They had really good food. Loved this sign.
Had some fun at a local festival at Arch Park, when I wasn’t on a work call about phones and data being down at an RV park.
Had a quick rain shower when we were in the local market and got to see this cool rainbow when we walked out.