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| Hiking | 9.22 Miles |
2,588 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.22 Miles | 6 Hrs 26 Mns | | 1.64 mph |
| 2,588 ft AEG | 49 Mns Break | 10 LBS Pack | | |
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| no partners | | First real hike in over a month. Up and down on the usual easy to access trails with a shorter hike out to a familiar boulder off the fire road. The loop using the Buckwood Trail as a connector will have to wait until fall, as ticks are out and the best conditions are now past.
The weather ended up being substantially better than I had hoped. Mostly sunny and the air was pleasant and dry. Not too many more days with lower dewpoints as that seems to fade as spring gets closer to summer. The trail was nice and dry, although the forecast rain will change this. Trees are leafing out, so it will be shady soon.
Few song birds compared to what I expected, but I did see a porcupine walking a well worn animal trail, a large black snake, and a pileated woodpecker. A deer, too, but those are like rats in the east. The porcupine was rather funny as it seemed totally unaware I was near until I started to call to it. I guess the quills allow for poor eye sight.
Descending along Dunnfield Creek was nicer than expected. Being a weekday few people were there and it was nice and quiet.
Regarding RS and syncing: I lost almost 500 feet of AEG after my raw route scout data was synced, and that is fine. However, what I don't understand is why my synced GPS route in the editor said 2588' of AEG, but my updated triplog was telling me 2768' of AEG. I repeated the process several time before I manually updated my log to reflect the lower AEG stat I assume to be accurate. FYI, my phone was on airplane mode 100% of the time.
Oh, the sound of bees swarming for one of the stat updates was disturbing for the 2 seconds before I realized it was the phone. Good thing Africanized bees aren't in NJ...yet. |
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Wildflowers Observation Light
Red columbines on the same boulder as last April. Fragrant exotic barberry, and other small white flowers on the fire road. |
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