Another foggy morning. The only thing good about the cold, wet mornings is that my bath is put off for another day. I’m so glad I get to stay inside where it’s warm and eat my breakfast (this morning I had three) while they venture out into the wilderness.
Today they drove south nine miles to the Oregon Redwoods Trail. Everyone thinks that all the redwoods are only in California, but they are here in Oregon as well. There is a 450-mile-long strip of a “fog belt,” and the coastal redwood forest extends from Monterey County, California, to just over the Oregon border.
To get to the trailhead they had to drive another four miles on a one lane gravel road through the woods. Not too bad until they encountered a large truck coming in the other direction. They pulled over in the bushes to let him pass. He was nice enough to tell to them to stay put as a truck pulling a trailer was right behind him. Seems a guy was camping where he shouldn’t have been and broke an axle on the road. Next, came another big truck. That driver wasn’t so nice and they had to back down to let him pass.
Finally, they reached the trailhead and started on the hike. So beautiful. A great easy interpretative trail the first mile with large redwoods. That trail connected to another moderate trail, down into the heart of the redwood forest for another mile. Huge old grove trees which were so tall you couldn’t even see the tops. They were the only hikers for almost the whole afternoon. So quiet and peaceful.
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