Haven't kept up with the blog but I'm officially obsessed with hiking on the Giant. I have hiked 19 out of the 23 days so far. I have started keeping track of how long each segment takes and only have one segment left.
I tried to finish up the segment times tonight. I started a little after 7:20 up the Yellow trail. It had been raining and was still raining off and on lightly so it was kind of dark when I started. I was also the only car in the parking lot!
I made it to the Red Triangle in 12 minutes and was hoping to get the last segment of the White to my left. But I knew that it was getting darker and wetter by the minute and for once I showed restraint, sort of. I decided to just keep going up the Red Triangle to the Tower Path. But of course, I had to do the whole Tower Path so I turned right on Blue and followed the path to the tower. There I circled around the back of the tower but took the Blue back to the Tower Path to pick it up where I had started.
From there it was a nice walk in the rain and the dark with absolutely nobody around. When I reached the bottom, it was almost exactly one hour after I had started, and still light enough when out from under the trees to see well.
Next quest - can I finish all the trails twice in one month? Stay tuned...
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