Photos 5, page 29
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Royal Gardens hike continued
| September 5, 2009 |
| 2:44 PM @ "Pan Pix" |
| 2:45 PM @ "Pan Pix" |
| 2:46 PM @ "Shade" My little campsite. |
| I spent a little over an hour in the shade. I spread out an air mattress but didn't have the energy to blow the sucker up! I had some lunch, took some pictures, and lay there cooling off. |
| 3:40 PM @ "Strt" |
| <-- 3:40 PM @ "Strt" What it looked like on 2/28/08 --> really changed much). The arrow shows where the crossroads (X Rd) is |
| <-- 3:43 PM @ "X Rd" You can just see a piece of the street above the lava in the foreground, between the vegetation and in front of the lava in the distance What it looked like on 7/16/06 --> |
| 3:46 PM @ 015 |
| 3:47 PM @ Street Boy does it feel good to walk on flat ground! |
| 3:48 PM @ 016 |
| 3:52 PM @ A'a |
| 3:54 PM @ "King & Orchid 100 ft." "clinkers". They are very light (lots of air pockets) and they slip and roll easily. You have to be very, very This is A'a. This stuff is known as careful walking on this stuff or you could take a nasty fall! This stuff is sharp! |
| 4:04 PM @ 017 I cut down the hill to get to where I sat on 3/2 but I was confronted with a wall of A'a that I was no way going to climb through! |
| 4:23 PM @ "3-2 Sit 60 Ft" The place where I sat on 3/2 and took some amazing pictures of the hillside on fire is 60 feet away... |
| 4:28 PM between "3-2 Sit 60 Ft" and 019 |
| And this is what it looked like on 2/28 |
| 4:34 PM @ 019 I noticed this big white dot... |
| 4:36 PM @ 020 There's that house again... |
| 4:37 PM @ 020 Two dots, left and right... |
| 4:39 PM 3 dots |
| 4:42 PM Middle dot |
| 4:45 PM End dot |
| 4:45 PM End dot. Dots on both sides... Somebody's marking a trail... |
| 4:47 PM, just after "End Dot Pic" I'm headed to the right of the last house on the right (the white spot in |
| 4:47 PM, just after "End Dot Pic" |
| <-- 4:52 PM I can't image that anybody's living in that house - the county wouldn't let 5:28 PM @ 024 --> |
| 6:13 @ 025 That's the visitor's area that I've marked "Main Road" on the map. As you can see from my track (the magenta line) I'm swinging wide around it so they don't give me any shit for being out here. |
| 6:18 PM @ 026 A last look back |
| break, and 3.9 miles back in 3.5 hr. A total of 7 miles in 7.5 hr. A nice little walk! |
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