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[scatman]

Been busy getting my weekend hikes in so that I have a chance of keeping up with the crew heading to the Bighorn Crags in a couple months.

Today started with a brisk jog, then hiked the Plateau Trail, and finished off with a stroll thru the beaver marsh in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

View from part of the trail, then my hiking partner and I dodging rain drops towards the end.

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A snapper for @scatman

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Earlier in the month I spent part of a day on a longer loop hike, also in CVNP. Put together a video of the experience if anyone is interested in that.

Nice snapper!

 

[Yvonne]

I did a crazy test hike in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP: from Hilina Pali to Kaʻaha Point.
It was the first serious backcountry hike after I rolled my ankle and tore one of the ligaments. But my ankle brace was great.
a bit over 8 miles, but I had to climb down a 1,600-ft cliff and later had to go back up again.
The trail was just lava, and in many spots it was so overgrown that you could not even see it.
It was hot, whipping 30mph wind, no shade, no trees.
Every once in a while, I have to do some grueling hikes like these.

I havenʻt finished all the pictures yet; here are just a few.

view from the Pali (cliff) about 1/3 down, I have to go down all the way to the coastline

Much of the switchbacks are loose Aʻa lava, itʻs almost like scree, but more loose

my final destination: Kaʻaha Point

Halfway down

I found a tree!!

The cliff I just climbed down

Tough to see any evidence of a trail

I made it

old lava tube

Tough hike, no shade, and almost 2,000 ft elevation gain, 1,500 ft alone in a bit more than a mile

 

[scatman]

I completed a three and a quarter mile walk this morning through Memory Grove as a warmup to Mount Olympus tomorrow, with a few nice wildflowers along the way.

Astro coming to say high on 8th Avenue


A bumble on 8th


A moth on 8th


And a swallowtail on 8th


Another cat on 8th whose name I do not know, but he was friendly


Heading north up A Street before dropping down into Memory Grove


Beginning of the trail


Heading north


Yellows salsify


Taper-tip onion


Wild rose


Nasty spurge


Common yarrow


Lewis Flax



Mustard


Yours truly


Balkan toadflax


Storksbill


A ladybug on some dyers woad


On the road up Memory Grove


The mouth of City Creek Canyon


Looping back around to home with Memory Grove below and Ensign Peak in the distance


And a house sparrow keeping me company back on 9th Ave.