Type: Hiking
Trail head: Princess Trailhead
Trail: Princess Interpretive Trail
Destination: Loop
Distance: 1.75 miles
Start Time: 2:45
End Time: 3:58
Travel Time: 1:12 (1.46 mph)
Moving Time: 0:52 (2.02 mph)
Elevation Rise: 297'
Descent: 221‘
Maximum Elevation: 5,994'
Today is Sherri’s birthday, an interesting mathematical year, but not a prime number. She never likes me to state those kinds of dates in those terms. That is just how my mind works. She was not forced to marry me.
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| Start of Trail |
When Sherri got up, I fixed her a breakfast of Ranchos Huevos. She appreciated it, even if I made a bit more than she could eat. We did a bit of cleaning up-nothing which was pressing. We had our lunch before we went up to the mountains.
Where are we going? A couple of months ago I saw a reference to Muir Snag. I do not think I had heard of it before. So after doing some research on it, I saw that it was in Sequioia National Forest on road 13S50, which is part of the Indian Basin Grove. This road is on the West side of the grove.
I drove us up to the road. When we found the road, we parked a little ways up the road and saw a white truck a bit further up the road. Being good at mathematics, I put two plus two together and realized that we are still in deer hunting season and that the truck more than likely belonged to a hunter. We did not have an inch of red on us, so we felt the wiser choice was to retreat.
Fortunately, this was close to another trail we like by Princess Campground. Even without the government shutdown, Princess would have been closed already. All which this does is have us walk another ¾ of a mile. We walked from the entrance to the interpretive trail. We have walked this trail a lot. There is a loop which is handicapped accessible and paved with a gentle grade. We take the longer loop, stopping frequently to ooh and ahh.
The impression starts quickly. Across the meadow are groves of aspen, having turned golden. Many pictures are taken of these trees. Then we move on. There is a place where we look down the meadow and across the canyon to some of the mountains beyond. It is a sight which never fails to move me. On the back end of the loop there is more aspen and looking towards Cherry Gap.
We took our walk back at a leisurely pace, getting back to the car about 4. We then drove back down home. Since it is Sherri’s birthday, we go out to eat at DiCicco’s on Nees. A good way to end the day.
Extra Photo's
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| Aspen |
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| Look north up the meadow |
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| More aspen |
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| Still more aspen |
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| Sherri |
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| Clouds over Cherry Gao |
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| Stump and Aspen |
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| Gary trying to get a shot, but it did not come out |
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| Gary examining a patch of red |
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| Aspen glowing |
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