Walks with Moss: Upper South Fork Road AB

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Upper South Fork Road AB

Pretty Blue Stream

It feels like I have been eating too much and gaining weight. I need to start putting in more miles.

With nothing going on at home during the day, getting out is not a problem. I am back to having the problem of the house being trashed when I return though.

Flash back to the early days of this blog and the disasters I used to return home to after leaving my kids at home with my spouse for the day.

I dropped my kiddo off at school since he missed the bus and I got off to a slightly later start than planned, but the days are so long that it did not matter. This was my fifteenth wedding anniversary and I was not sure how bad my grief would be today.

The plan was a longish road hike on a road that sometimes bores me. I love the destination, but the road its self can be very boring. I brought my new Bluetooth speaker to help with the monotony of this road hike and it worked. I despise hearing other hikers speakers on the trail and I would never take one on a trail. This was a road hike where I would not be seeing anyone else.

I took a brush crashing route on the way in and I stumbled onto a poachers trail. Someone had gone off trail and poached a maple tree only taking a bit of wood from the base. Shame on them!

I had lunch undercover and managed to get a few pictures that I like.

On the hike out I saw two mason county sheriffs in their car. They asked me if I had seen or heard anyone out there. How strange? For the rest of my hike out I wondered what they were looking for.

After I got home I found out that a solder had gone missing. They decided that he probably fell down below the High Steel Bridge. This seems to happen about once a year. Very sad.

I think because he was a soldier they extended the search out a bit further than usual. I was quite a distance upstream from that bridge.

I had a nice hike of about 10 miles and it did not wear me out too much.