Went to Clemmons Educational Forest this morning around 11:30am.
Took Taylor with me, but not Lilly.
Lilly just can't do much more than about half a mile and we did 4 miles today.
I'm way out of shape - especially noticeable with the hills here.
I would have liked to do another loop of the "Watershed Loop", which is 3mi in length, but that doesn't include the 1-1.5mi hike to it.
Plus, no sense overdoing it and hurting myself.
I'm definitely not 40 or even 45 anymore.
Taylor was tiring out too at the end.
I'll work up to doing 2 loops plus the other 2-2.5mi trails.
If I'm gonna go do any hiking in May in the mountains, I need to be in more better shape!
Why won't she (Taylor) drink from any any of the streams that are flowing??
I had water for my self and in previous times, I've brought a bowl for her and put home water in it.
She just turns her little nose up at it and won't drink...
A few pictures along the way.
This "bridge" is a new one.
There never has been a bridge, the next photo, is where the trail usually crossed, and where I crossed today instead.
A moth or something on a tree where I stopped to get my jacket off.
There used to be a 5' to 6' wide bridge here.
Guess it got washed away in Matthew?
Taylor doesn't much like the bridges, prefers, like me, to just walk on through the water.
Pretty purple flowers.
Pipes have washed out on the outlet side....
I suspect a LOT of water going through those and producing a scour hole (blowout) at the outlet that in turn eats the fill away from the outlet...
Could mean that they are undersized.
There has been a large scour hole there for a while.
Inlet is quite blocked up by debris.
Pretty tired after that hike and then coming home and mowing the whole yard with the push mower.
Definitely need new blades or ones on mower sharpened.
Took me about 1.5hr to mow it all.
Then inside for a shower and some ice on my right hip.
It's extremely painful after all of my activity today.
When I saw dr last week, he wouldn't give any pain meds.
Said that didn't solve the underlying issue (bursitis) and I needed to either go to PT (too expensive), get another shot, or do stretches & stuff on my own.
Fine.
I'll try ice and stretching & such for the next month or so.
Kinda hard to do stretches and stuff due to the pain.
If it doesn't get any better, I'm going back and asking for some meds.
Tell him I've done what you wanted me to do and it's no better.
Stupid Obamacare crap.