What a difference a day makes! Got up at 6:00am. Ate breakfast—standard fare. Enjoyed the morning. Finished a GK Chesterton book-The Man Who Was Thursday. We should be taking off right about the time I would be at work. Still wonderful. The sun has not even reached our campsite yet,
We leave around 8:10. If we needed to, we could have cut 45 minutes off of our getting ready. But we have about 3 hours to get back to the car, so it is not bad to take it easy. (We take 4+ hours)
It is cooler. I hike in my shorts; Sheri in long pants. Once we hit the sun, Sherri goes to shorts.
It is good to hike in the morning. Everything is so fresh. We come around a corner, there are two deer laying in the brush, about 20’ off of the trail. The river is putting on a show. You see its mist puffing up from the river as it careens down its course. It is rushing down in its hurry and sometime fury to be the first at the end.
The flowers are out. Making ones trip colorful. Also saw a common king snake—at least I think it was.
Mist Falls was good. We took more pictures and then headed down. Made pretty good time. We stopped at our lunch spot at the bridge. Only two more miles to go. Got driven out of our lunch spot by bugs—not terrible, just more than our comfort at the moment. Sky is clouding over. We hear a couple sounds of thunder—but don’t feel anything. We get to the truck around 12:30. Certainly cooler with cloud cover.
Now off we go to Bear Mountain Pizza, then home. Good trip.
Just a note on what we missed. Saturday, the high was 99F. Then Sunday it was 106. Glad we were in the mountains. Even though we were sweating, we were still a lot cooler than in Fresno.
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