Happy Birthday to me
It's my birthday. I turned 69 years old. It's amazing how times fly. I'm glad I can still square dance, hike and camp. I get some aches and pain now and then but not bad. I can still sit on the floor but it takes me longer to get up. I also glad I'm healthy. I had a super birthday.
First I crawled out of bed at 7:15 and made french toast sticks for breakfast.
Afterwards we got ready to go on a hike. There's a forest trail right at the entrance of the campground and it goes for 1.5 miles one way to the dispersed area. The trail number was 117. It's open to everyone. We started our hike at 8:00 and finished by 10:00. The trail starts after you cross a cattle guard. It's open range in the national forest. The trail started in the trees and then went in the open. We started out wearing our jackets because the temperature was in the high 30's. But when we hike in the open after a little bit the jackets came off. We also were going up hill. We hiked up over 500ft in elevation. We started this direction so we could hike up the elevation at the beginning of the hike and come down at the end. We didn't see any wildlife but we did see beautiful fall colors in the aspens. The trail offered gorgeous views of the Bighorn Mountains and forest. By the end of the hike we had hiked a total of 3.4 miles.
View of the Bighorn Mountains and forest in the fall
Camping in the dispersed area
Another view of fall in the Bighorn Mountains
When we got back to the Minnie Larry's watch gave him a gold trophy because he set a new record for himself in his workout. Larry keeps informed about what his watch and my band can do through Reddit. My band under workout doesn't have a hiking workout so I use steps. Larry found out his watch has a hiking workout. He started using this workout for the last two days. At the end of each hike the watch tells him how far he hiked, how fast and elevation change. Yesterday, he got a gold trophy for doing a 2.25 mile hike. Today he got another gold trophy for 3.5 mile hike. His watch lets him know verbally everytime he hikes a mile. It also tells you at every mile how fast you hiked. Larry's watch told him great job now you need to rest for 30h. We figured it meant 30 hours. My band will vibrate each mile and show you have walked one mile, you have walked two miles, etc. After each workout you do each device can give you a lot of information such as heart beat per minute during the workout, calories you burn, how fast you workout, how long, charts on elevation, chart on stress and a lot more. It's amazing all the information you can get.
In the afternoon we relaxed with a book.
About 2:30 we went on a 2 mile hike to Hettinger Picnic/Group Area. We started by hiking trail #117 but when it Yd off to trail K we started hiking it. All of a sudden it disappeared. It looked like it use to go from Middle Fork Campground to Hettinger Picnic Area but it wasn't kept up. We hiked through a meadow to get back on trail #117. Once on trail #117 we walked to the closed gate to Hettinger. Then we walked around the gate and walked the road about .33 of a mile to the picnic area. It was a gorgeous area with the picnic tables in the trees. There was only one giant grill and a lot of huge picnic tables. I guess that's why it was consider a group area. There are also restrooms. They were open and had toilet paper. They smelled better then the one we have in our area. They were clean. Once we rested we headed back. We took trail #117 all the way back. This part of the trail was in the open for about a half mile. There were a lot of small grasshoppers all over the trail. We had a super hike.
Hettinger Picnic/Group Area
We spent the rest of the day relaxing. I ended up doing 16,500 steps.
For my birthday dinner we had sausages and chips. My birthday cake was a carrot cake. I had a super birthday.
My birthday cake
We have been on the road for 5 weeks and have hiked 130 miles.
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