As part of my continuing conditioning, I wanted to get in a ten mile hike this week. Collette and Sue met up with Cathy and me and we did 10 miles on the Dragon Trail which goes around Hardy Dam Pond.
We hiked from Newaygo SP to Brower Park. I thought this was going to get me all new miles on the trail but it did overlap with what Ellen and I did last year (link at end). No matter. The whole loop is now open and is over 40 miles. I've done just under 20 of them.
The day started out overcast, so we didn't have blue water, but some errant ray of sunshine must have been lighting these trees at the bottom of the bank below us.
By the end of the day we did get some of that blue water!
This trail wanders through Newaygo and Mecosta Counties. So this was our joke of the day. We call this a Mecosta Moose.
OK, it's obviously a horse. But how often do you come across a horse tethered in the woods with no human nearby? And it's wearing a harness. Around the next bend, we came across a wagon, also just sitting in the woods, empty. Still no human. The horse is obviously well cared for, and was not distressed, but the whole thing just made us chuckle. And scratch our heads.
Got a cool pattern picture in Rosy Run where we ate our lunch.
The big news of the day was wildflowers. I even got a new one! So you know it's a stellar day in my book. There were so many, I'll do a separate post about them tomorrow. Also, I think I've IDed a cool fungus that I also saw on the big hike.
Afterwards, Cathy and I came home by way of.. (do you recognize the location?)
... Country Dairy for some ice cream. A fantastic day, and my body is accepting the 10 miles pretty well.
Miles hiked in 2025: 190.8
Dragon Trail, Newaygo, MI. Newaygo SP to Brower Park. 10 miles
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4 comments:
The horse would have had me stumped. I've seen horses with Amish buggies tethered up in town behind the grocery store but finding out out in the woods like that with no human in sight would be puzzling.
Ann- it was pretty strange!
Lulu: "We thought maybe you had found a dragon to ride around on like in 'Game of Thones'! But a hike is much better."
Lulu- the reservoir looks like a dragon from above, so it's called the Dragon Trail
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