More hiking!

In an effort to help Bob train for his big birthday hike, without putting too much wear-n-tear on his knees or his feet, I dropped him off at the bottom of Little Devil's Stairs, then drove around and up to Skyline Drive, parking at the Little Hogback overlook.


I bushwhacked down to the fire road to meet Bob and he appeared shortly thereafter. He flew up the trail! We then drove down to hike up Mary's Rock, but the Panorama parking lot is closed for construction. In fact, the old Panorama building is gone. It's been closed/condemned for years since it was full of asbestos. So we parked along the road and cut through an overgrown median strip to the trail.

Here's Bob at the top (yes that's him)

And the view looking west from the top. It was one of those days in the mid 60's, and as you can see there is still some golden color up there.


On the hike down, I found a tick on my leg, probably from the short trek through the median to the trail head. It was pretty well dug in, but Bob got it out with his close-up, x-ray vision (thanks Bob).

Back at the van we sat in the grass, and another much smaller tick was on my water bottle. We scrammed out of there, and Bob had one on his shirt. We both had the heebie-jeebies on the ride home but found no more ticks. We thought it was strange to find so many ticks in November?