The trail this photo was taken on goes from the Mange to Rab­bit Val­ley cross­ing sev­eral major thor­ough­fares in the woods, includ­ing Pio­neer Trail, yet it has no des­ig­na­tion of its own. I like to call it the Clint East­wood Trail.

We did in fact go find the new cache in Hitch­cock Woods this morn­ing, but we didn’t just park, walk to, find and leave of course, we took the long way. The tem­per­a­ture was in the mid­dle 70s, but the humid­ity felt higher and by the time we were done with our 3–3/4 mile walk my T-shirt looked like I had been run­ning from the “Oth­ers” along with Jack, Kate and Hur­ley. It was a very nice walk and I think we saw or heard more wood­peck­ers eat­ing break­fast than we saw humans.

…we were on foot.

Bridge Ahead Closed To Carriages

We went for a walk in Hitch­cock Woods this after­noon and finally placed the new cache. We had hoped to get it placed yes­ter­day, so it would be pub­lished this morn­ing, but life inter­vened. I’m wait­ing to send it to the reviewer ’til a lit­tle later this evening so that no one will be tempted to go hunt­ing it, against the rules and all com­mon sense, tonight.

In the recent past I’m sure I have com­plained here about how cold it has been here, so in the inter­est of fair­ness I shall now com­mence to whin­ing about today’s weather. The high was nearly 15 degrees above nor­mal„ so that when we went walk­ing in the woods this after­noon the trails were crowded with dog walk­ers, horse­back rid­ers and a few just plain walk­ers such as our­selves. Worse yet was that I actu­ally broke a sweat on our three and a half mile trek. All that traf­fic did have a side ben­e­fit, it spooked a group of deer so that we caught sight of five good sized does streak­ing across our path about 50 yards ahead at one point.