13 miles of hiking • 1000' elevation gain • 1 night
Kara ran errands and I changed the car's oil in the driveway before leaving town at a liesurely 12:30, onto the road with lunch by 1pm.
A nice night out camping under the stars with a nice cedar-wood fire. I forgot the camera's memory card and so am sans beautiful pictures of the azure Lewis river and verdant and lucious moss carpet that blankets the forest here.
Slept in late the next morning in the sun. found out my sleeping pad has a leak in it. I scrambled down to the river off trail to climb to the top of a monolith. I didn't scope it out too hard as I came down as when I got to the top I scared off a mother-goose from her nest of 5 large eggs. So sorry Mommer goose!
she scared me too though--and I am quite, quite lucky she didn't attempt to go after me because being on the rock above a deep area of the river, just above more rapids.. wouldn't have been a fun place to deal with such a situation.
I really love the old growth and river here.. one of my more favored easy hikes for sure.
