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Week Eleven Day Two Trail Adventure

May 26, 2020

Week Eleven Day Two Trail Adventure: San Felasco Old Spanish Trail (Blue) and Spring Grove Trail (Yellow) – 7 miles today (not actually intentional)!

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Although we have previously been to this trail head we are taking a different trail today. The plan was to do part of the recently opened Old Spanish Trail (blue). This is a loop trail, but it is 4.9 miles long, so we intended to cut it short.
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Happy to be on an adventure.
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The beginning part of the trail is a very wide (service road) trail.
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Then we headed into the forest and came to a swamp.
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Rachel had a class Zoom meeting.
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The trail branched off further into the woods.
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Taking notes from her class meeting.
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We left the blue trail and hopped onto the yellow trail hoping we could cut off a large portion of the trail. There was some rain drops and dark clouds heading our way.
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What we didn’t realize was we had taken the long way around the yellow trail loop adding another 2.2 miles to the hike – oops! I enjoyed this tall grassy area of the trail.
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There were all kinds of interesting plants and flowers along this section of the trail.
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These were on the right side of the trail.
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These were on the left side of the trail.
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We got caught in the rain 🌧️. Slightly grumpy and pretty wet.
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Yup, wet and slightly grumpy. We were about five miles in at this point.
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We eventually made it back to the trail head. This was the longest hike of our trail adventures!
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How did you like the adventure Rachel? See pic for her response. Lizzy said, “Well we did 7 miles on a 4.9 mile hike.” They did great despite the wrong turn and the rain!

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