Mark’s Photos #15
It was a cool morning in February 2024 as I walked down the mountain toward the trailhead after a night camping in an old-growth forest. The blue sky of the morning was being swallowed...
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Mark’s Photos #14
Hiking the PCT, I had been in Oregon about a week when I took this picture of Crater Lake. When I left California, I hadn’t expected much of a difference in the trail, but...
Mark’s Photos #13
On September seventh 2010 Tropical Storm Hermina moved out of Mexico and into south Texas. It brought with it winds of up to 64 miles an hour and 6.24 inches of rain which caused...
Mark’s Photos #12
In March of 2017 I started my hike of the 800 mile Arizona Trail. Five hundred miles along, I injured my right big toe making it painful to walk. Of course I walked another...
Mark’s Photos #11
The thermometer read 19°F and my hands were almost numb. The snow crunched under my trail runners as I stumbled around in the dark. It was 9 o’clock PM on a first quarter moon...
Mark’s Photos #10
“Not all miles are the same,” Spider Woman had told me, and she was right. We all know this, but sometimes it’s good to be reminded. A ten mile level forest walk is not...
6 responses to “Mark’s Photos #10”
You do resemble a small conifer at times…..
I’ll take that as a compliment.😄
“there were no other plants in this hellscape” gives me quite the picture of this field of cinder. And where did you finally find water?
There was another spring two more miles from where I got to the forest, but I just couldn’t go that far. So I set up camp in the shade and was able to find a seep where I collected about 8 oz of water over a couple hours. That tided me over until morning when I hiked to that next spring.
A seep? I don’t know that term. Between two rocks?
“Seep” means to flow or pass slowly through small openings or porous material. Sometimes called oozing, it is an area where small amounts of moisture are coming out of the ground or from a seam of rock. Often a slightly damp or muddy area in an otherwise dry stream bed with a little digging can be coaxed to form a tiny pool of water given time.