Hiking on Leaves Again

I never thought that snow would "leave". But a lot of it has! I've been under the weather for a week or so and today I finally decided to go for it.

It's amazing how light it is at 5 PM. I headed up the trail at 5 with Sadie and we went all the way to the White lookout. Between the warm temperatures and the rain, a lot of snow has melted and now we have streams where the trails used to be.

I checked on Evan's Eagle project on the way up. Some of the water bars are doing what they were designed to do but some have been obliterated. I worked a little on the uppermost one to channel the water off the side of the trail and cleared the exit trough with a stick.

Mostly water, rocks and leaves as we made our way past the Yellow/Green Crossover and kept heading into the sunset on the White trail. I forgot how much of a descent there is on the far side before you reach the Red Triangle. There was a deer down below but Sadie could only bark from above. There was no way to get down there quickly.

We took a right on the Red Triangle and then headed East on the Orange Trail. Up a bit of a hill and then through the Mountain Laurel to the Yellow/Green Crossover again. We decided to continue on the Orange although it was getting darker now.

The Orange Trail is a bit more sheltered from the sun and there were places where we had to step in snow, sometimes kind of deep on the north side of piles of rocks. You also had to mind your step as there was some ice on some of the rocks. But we made it to the Red Circle and then headed for home. It was pretty dark when we got to the door around 6:30.

Great to be hiking on leaves again.