Sometimes in Mineral King we just hang around the cabin, knitting, splitting wood, reading, playing a game called Mancala (I don’t like games but this is a tradition with my annual guest PC, and besides, the marbles are really beautiful), and baking pies in a wood stove oven.
Then we say, “What are we doing?? It is a beautiful day, and we could be out on a trail!”
Sometimes, a hike is just too much trouble. Pack up food, water, be prepared to be gone the bulk of the day, find a walking stick, do you need a poncho or parka, which camera shall we take, can I fit in this knitting in case I’m just sitting around?
So, we opt to not take food or water and just go for a walk.
Look Ma, no packs! It is just a walk, not a hike, after all.
A mighty steep walk. Some parts of the trail to White Chief are so steep that I have to do them on my tip-toes, because it is hard for my feet to bend at the angle of the trial.
As we were heading up the trail, I kept wondering, “Who Moved My Chief?”
Okay, that’s far enough. Can we go back now? It looks sort of as if it might rain.
Good camouflage, Miss Deery.
Weird sky, weird glowing light on Sawtooth, which is behind the darker peak that we call “Sawtooth’s Shadow”, even though its real name is “Mineral Peak”.
Final view of the trail as we hurried back to the cabin – aren’t those walking sticks interesting? Handy if you are heading out, but they won’t keep you dry in the rain.
PC LOVES the rain! I can tolerate it if I have a decent parka or poncho, and Trail Guy HATES to be caught out in it. The whole gamut of rain opinions resides in our cabin, but we are all immensely grateful for any water that falls from the sky.
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Oooh, Diane, a covered porch would be the height of perfection during the rain! Lovely picture you painted for us – thank you!
… many summers ago the rain began … i headed out to the covered part of the cabin porch, with coffee in hand … just sat and listened to the rain falling on the metal roof … savouring the rain spell of the forest … my family thought i was nuts … i was in heaven …
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