We started at Baxter Bridge and hiked west (NCT trail east). This is the section high above the Manistee River.
I was hiking with David Snoek who hiked quite a few miles with me on the NCT hike a couple of years ago.
The rain made all the views dull and gray and brown. But here is one of the many oxbows on that section of the river.
There wasn't a lot of joy in that hike. We were wet. The trail was wet, the sky was wet. We made it 7.5 miles and camped at one of the many sites that is accessible by vehicle along there. We huddled under a tarp to eat dinner. But we were cold and wet and just crawled in out tents and sleeping bags after that.
My tent:
Daves tent:
Not too exciting, right? We've had to move the dates of this little jaunt many times for various reasons, always hoping that we could catch some good weather. The joke is that we managed to pick one of the very worst weather days in the past couple of weeks to hike! But we got the miles in.
Stay tuned for day 2 tomorrow.
Miles hiked in 2025: 152.2. Hike 100 Challenge: 60.0
Baxter Bridge to campsite along Manistee River bluffs. 7.5 miles
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3 comments:
Nothing worse than being cold and wet. It takes the fun out of just about everything. At least you aren't out there doing the hike alone.
Ann- I really didn't want this one to be cold and wet. Youda thunk we could find two days of nice weather that we could do this, right?
Charlee: "Me! I do!"
Chaplin: "So do I!"
Oona: "So does Oona."
Lulu: "My furs are waterproof so I don't care."
Java Bean: "Ayyy, I love playing in the water! Bring on the garden hose!"
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