You buy all this coffee....

and you never drink it.

The Group

Julie, Kevin(new guy), Drew, Luke, Adam, Doc, Scott, DanBo

and up front Me

Hope you like inside jokes that odds are you will never get, 'cause well... that wont be the last one. It was a good hiking day, we've had great luck with the weather so far. Hoping that will hold for us, but I'm sure we'll be hiking in the rain at least once. We managed the furthest hike yet today, 10.3mi. This weeks updates will include another bio, and I'm sure at least one little bit of musing on my part. Right now though I am just too tired. So just the raw details is what you'll get for now. We were on road for the first 4.5mi where we crossed through the glorious town of Alto Pass. Also we traveled through the limbo Cedar and Olive, more on that later though. Once off road we had some muddy terrain but nothing too bad, some minor elevation changes overall though much easier that last weekend. We ended up missing the turn to head up the west side of little cedar so we cut east and took an atv trail up till we intersected with the river to river trail again. Easy going and no issues from there regarding loss of trail.

I suppose I've enough energy to regal you lot with another tail of this trail. If you'll simulate some wavy lines and chime like music we'll get this flashback started. The year is twenty ought seven, I'm in my sophomore year of college and it's a bright sunny day out. I decided to revisit a trail where I had a good time with my father and brother years ago. The Little Cedar Loop Trail. Now we're heading down Landreth road and already things are interesting. The road and had deep ruts and was great fun to maneuver the minivan down. So, we got to the trail head and made our way along the loop. Played around on the spillway for a bit and continued on. I hate to admit this but I didn't bring a compass, a map, or my GPS. POOR PLANNING on my part. This resulted in us heading east for way too long. So as you might be figuring out, yes this was not the first time I hiked this part of the river to river. Once we got to the end I got a ride with some mountain biker back to the van. Was lucky to have run into them, as it would have been a long walk home. I was happy that Doc was able to join us this weekend because he was one of the people with me when we went that wrong direction.