Mary and I went hiking out at Wakley Lake Foot Trail area. It is a US Forest Service area that is a protected nesting area for Loons, Eagle and Osprey. There are miles of foot trails out there and it has marsh lands and high ground. I have hiked it in the winter but Mary had never been there.
It was a beautiful day and we set out at a decient clip. The problem was the deer flys and the gnats. They like to have drove us nuts. We had spray with us but we had to constantly reapply it as we would sweat it off.
The trail we took was no very well marked or used and after an hour or so it was hard to follow. Frankly we got lost. I knew generally where we were, at least I kept the general direction of the lake in mind but we sure the hell were not on the trail we had started out on, at least I didn't think so.
Mary was a good sport but the flys were getting to her. Nothing we could do about it but keep going. We came to a fork and she thought we should turn left and I figured the lake was off to our right. She argued and I said, "You lead the way" Which she did. I knew that if we kept going the way she wanted we would be miles from the scooter by dark but screw it, I just grinned and followed. Finally she said, "Do you think this is the right way?" I said, "Nope" She asked what way I thought, like I had not told her ten minutes ago
. I told her the way I said in the first place.
Since she had not a clue she reluctantly agreed to follow me. In another half hour I found the main trail and we followed it out. I don't have a clue how far we had gone but I am going back next week and do it again with my GPS. I was totaly exhausted when we finally got back to the scooter.
It was a great day and I took these three panoramas at the lake. We could hear the Loons a calling but didn't seen them. Beautiful area
These are Panoramas so be sure to scroll them to see the whole thing...
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It was a beautiful day and we set out at a decient clip. The problem was the deer flys and the gnats. They like to have drove us nuts. We had spray with us but we had to constantly reapply it as we would sweat it off.
The trail we took was no very well marked or used and after an hour or so it was hard to follow. Frankly we got lost. I knew generally where we were, at least I kept the general direction of the lake in mind but we sure the hell were not on the trail we had started out on, at least I didn't think so.
Mary was a good sport but the flys were getting to her. Nothing we could do about it but keep going. We came to a fork and she thought we should turn left and I figured the lake was off to our right. She argued and I said, "You lead the way" Which she did. I knew that if we kept going the way she wanted we would be miles from the scooter by dark but screw it, I just grinned and followed. Finally she said, "Do you think this is the right way?" I said, "Nope" She asked what way I thought, like I had not told her ten minutes ago
. I told her the way I said in the first place.Since she had not a clue she reluctantly agreed to follow me. In another half hour I found the main trail and we followed it out. I don't have a clue how far we had gone but I am going back next week and do it again with my GPS. I was totaly exhausted when we finally got back to the scooter.
It was a great day and I took these three panoramas at the lake. We could hear the Loons a calling but didn't seen them. Beautiful area
These are Panoramas so be sure to scroll them to see the whole thing...
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