This marked my first outing with a new outdoorsy meetup group. I wanted to exercise my permanently injured ankle in a novel way; so I could strengthen it.
I gave the park’s fitness area the evil eye as we walked past. I’ll run on a treadmill and lift free weights, but I want nothing to do with other exercise equipment.
Our fearless leader lead the way although he’d never hiked this trail.
The first path we followed ended on a street. I love how a house peeked just beyond the trees rather than an animal.
Following a different trail, we came across another human activity “dropping.”
I surrendered my camera to pose with this interesting tree.
This was the first of several water crossings we traversed.
This miniature waterfall added some variety to the otherwise lazy, shallow river we loosely followed.
This was the most sensible crossing we encountered. On the next one, I helped an older woman across since she was not confident in her footing on the rocks. I made a mental note to purchase a walking stick at Goodwill next time I plan to go hiking.
We still ended up walking on a neighborhood sidewalk as part of our journey and circling back to the house we’d seen in the first ten minutes of our hike.