Day 3 - Hiking not Roadwalking

Yesterday evening was a accurate foreshadowing for a rough morning today. That being said, we hit the road by 7:30 and slowly moved our sore, burnt bodies along Silver Lake Road. When the ibrupeofen kicked in I hit a stride as we turned off onto Casey Road which was something of a miracle. Ample shade and dirt compressed asphalt was like walking on a cushion.

After a couple miles it went back to asphalt then grit and back and forth but made for more comfortable walking than Silver Lake Road. We took a short break once we crossed Union Falls Dam and made our way back on a more solid road over to Silver Lake. Before reaching the lake, we passed Silver Lake Road again and then mosey on over to Silver Lake for lunch at a great picnic table spot!

Under a mile left of road walking was left until we hit the wood and I was more than excited. When we got to the dirt bushwalk it seemed a bit pointless but it got to an ATV track under power lines which was scorching. I didn't care a bit though because my feet weren't pounding on pavement. After a bit we turned right strait into a half mile bushwack.

It was dense and thick forest where I had to head to a stream then interest another stream to follow it out to a snowmobile trail. The bushwack was really fun in my option (not so much in Spins' opinion) and the hiking afterward on the snowmobile trail was a much more glorious feeling on the feet. We meandered around and reached a campground and followed it out to Taylor Pond Dam which we crossed over.

The rest of the day was on occasionally muddy snowmobile track. It dragged on a bit because of my mileage miscalculations from the previous night. Arriving at the shelter, we were greeted by a decent showing of mosquitos. I took the inner part of my tent out and rigged us a big net for the shelter and watched the sunset over the mountains in front of a beautiful pond while not being eaten alive by mosquitos, I couldn't ask for a better ending to the day. It feels great to be off the road and into the woods.