10 miles of hiking • 1500' elevation gain •
With that wind, I decided today was a day to stay in the woods. Fun wanderings. Heard the wind roaring above me up in the canopy, but I was warm and dry in the duff below. Traveled along the western edge of the gorge fire for a bit. Found out what happens to frozen chanterelles ( they turn to soggy mush).
Many of the old roads on the Bridal Veil Plateau have been ground up and covered in logs after being used as fire breaks and then "revegetated". However new trails are being made alongside them. much more navigable than last year. There is a half mile section of the Palmer Mill Road from the brown gate down to the quarry which has a well established tread for a ways, and then it's a fun rock hop/log walk in the braided streams of nascent Bridal Veil Creek-it was quite fun. The rest of the road is intact down to the Brower Road gate.
