I only did about 4 miles today. Kind of a bust. We have a heat warning around here, it is supposed to be in triple digits by Sunday and it has been in the 90’s in some spots. So I figured I would get out really early.
I left the car to go up the trail by 5:50 am. There was only 1 other car in the lot. This trail is wide and new for the first 1.25 miles but after that it gets brushy and narrow. And about the time these old-man legs hit that mark, the first in what turned out to be a long stream of hikers passed me.
At 2 miles I turned around, at the bridge that spans Granite Creek.
I will try an even earlier start on Sunday, by Change Creek which is a fairly obscure hike, and see if that works. I do not want to be caught on the trail in the heat so I will see how it goes.