Squeezing them in

I can only get the hikes in when the weather and my family commitments cooperate.

Tonight I parked in the main lot and walked along Mount Carmel Avenue to the bottom of the Red Hexagon. I had forgotten how far down it was but that was still the closest place I could part to the trail. It took 3 minutes to walk there and then I headed up in the waning light. It was 7:41 when I left the parking lot.

I passed a few people coming down on my way up. I got to the White trail pretty quickly but I wanted the full half of the Red Hexagon so I continued to where it meets the Blue trail to the left of the Tower Path in the woods.

There was a couple walking along the Blue trail toward the Tower Path and I turned around to get back to the White section over the Giant's shoulders. I followed them down the Tower Path but veered off and up the White trail. It was about 8 PM when I headed up and I was up on top in 10 minutes. I stopped about a minute to take in the view and enjoy the cool breeze. It had been a fairly warm sunny day but now the cool of the evening was a welcome relief.

I headed down the steep drop to the Red Triangle as a couple of guys headed down to my right. It was getting fairly dark now around 8:20. I headed up the Red Triangle to finish the piece down to Tuttle. The flashlight came in handy, not that I couldn't see the trail, but just to verify in a few spots which way the trail officially went.

I called Evan a little before I got to Tuttle and he picked me up after a brief wait under the only streetlight that I could see.

I think I can do the rest in 3 hikes. We'll see...