Emily and I were off to the Two Trees trail again today. We got there about the same time as last week. This week, there was a lot less cloud cover and the high temperature for the day was forecast as about 90 degrees. Even with the forecast of heat, it was a fairly cool morning. Emily was wearing her new boots she got for her birthday.
If you have seen any of the hiking pictures in the past, Emily likes pink. Her boots have pink on the tread which give a splash of girl to the boots
As we started up the trail we came to the first stream crossing. There is a bridge that we have been across several times and this is the first time that I was water running. The bridge crosses a large pipe and so on each side of the bridge you see the pipe and dirt around it. Just below the pipe was the ripple of the water flowing. The vegetation is a little thinner due to fall. I will have to keep my eyes out in the future to see if water is there in the middle of the summer.
We made fairly good time going up the trail. We stopped at the same spots at usual to get something to drink. When we started hiking, it took a lot to get Emily to drink and stay hydrated. Now she has no problem drinking a couple of liters while on a hike. Today we noticed that there was la lot of cricket noise at the spring. There were also some new flowers on some of the plants. Also to note was the poison oak, it was losing its leaves for Fall.
At the next spat we stop I went to get Emily’s picture. She was giving me her familiar smile and all of a sudden she pointed as I was pushing the button to take the picture. She saw a furry animal. I turned to look and sure enough there was a coyote across the canyon. It would move, stop, and look at us and then move again.
We continued to the top and determined that we would hike the Edison trail for a half mile. The trail has ups and downs as it followed the path of the power lines.
As we got further out we got closer to an uphill portion. We already agreed that we would go to the two mile which is a half mile longer than the Two Trees Trail. Emily was logging the distance on her phone. It would announce when we reached the two mile mark. Emily commented, I am not going to climb that hill as we looked forward. She begged, “Please be two miles soon. We reached the bottom of the hill and her phone said, “Two miles.” She was happy.
We turned around and headed back. When we got back we noted that we went a mile further and it took 18 more minutes than the previous week. It was a good hike and we are going to try to get even quicker in the future.
