Some days, a good fast fitness hike is the best medicine. A wet, cold May morning – no rain today, but yesterday so the forest was wet and slick, but very little mud.
Headed out to TH by 6:30 and was hiking by 6:45. Oddly, very little cloud cover to start …
It was crazy crowded for that time of morning as all of the Friday ‘before work’ crowd hit the hill – several I had seen a couple of weeks ago. A very fast first incline and then coming down the second time, I ran into a woman who had so much smelling stuff on her body that i almost got sick – turned around and went back up the hill to avoid passing her.
Once and twice at the top, the air was anything but stable and gave quite a show
The parks were doing some maintenance … making the trail look like pot-hole construction. Helpful, I assume …
There were some new flowers yet most of the older ones (trillium for example) were gone … the vegetation was explosive
Summary: A great fitness ramble and something to do anytime free time allows.
All Trails Factoids
Distance: 7.95 miles | Elevation Gain: 2,001 ft | Avg Pace 21:55 / miles — Recording
| Gear Type | For this Hike |
| Pack | Gregory Citro 30 New Pack: A gear review will be published shortly (3rd hike) |
| Shoes | Columbia fabric boots |
| Top Layers | Baselayer LS + lightweight poly LS |
| Bottom Layer | REI Sahara convertible pants |
| Socks | Dual layer REI Poly liner + REI lightweight Merino wool |
| Gaiter | REI ‘On the Trail Gaiters’ |
| Water | Bladder 2 L – 1L + 375ml consumed |
| Supporting tools | Trekking pole – used and needed No toe callous bumpers – emergency only |