Miles Hiked Overall: 111 (179 km)
Today I hiked south from Winchester Bay to John Dellenback Trail Head. It was pretty awesome to be on the other side of the dunes, I've never been on the beach side of the dunes before. It's pretty isolated over there because who's dumb enough to walk over the dunes? Yes, me, that's who. From Winchester Bay, you can pretty easily get to the beach but after 7 miles, I turned east and has to go over the dunes. This is NO SMALL FEAT!! It is, actually, horribly hard. I frankly don't see why people don't get permanently lost out there....its just a sea of sand as far as the eye can see for a few miles. Luckily, someone put tall wooden posts every 100 meters or so that indicate the trail..but they are still hard to see. And yes, I did aimlessly walk around for over an hour before I finally saw one other person way off in the distance and finally found my way to the parking lot. Right now in this moment in time, there's nothing I detest more than sand dunes....but there are more to come in the next couple of days.
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| Nothing but sand ... |
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| My lifeline back to the trail head |
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| Yay, other people - I'm not lost (unless they are too) |
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| Because you can't go to the beach without also stopping at Mo's, right? |
Karen,
ReplyDeleteYou are trekking along. Now you know why people get lost in the desert! You didn't have a horse with no name, right? (Sorry, music humor)
And the Stricker's agree, Mo's is a MUST stop. ;)
Keep going girl!!!!
Thanks for letting me go to Mo's. I didn't realize it was your second day in a row there...
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