Monday 1-5-26 Coyote Crossing & Hiking Trails

 

Fog Morning from the internet

 

We had a beautiful day. We woke up to an overcast foggy morning with the temperature of 53 degrees with a breeze. The wind was strong enough that we heard it howling. By 3:00 the sun came out and the wind went down. The high today was 69 degrees. It was very pleasant because it was overcast.

I crawled out of bed at 7:45 and got dressed. Then we had bagels for breakfast. After breakfast we got ready for a hike. I put a couple of bottles of water in my pouch and put a hat on. Finally I set my band for the hike.

We started the hike from the Minnie, we walked to the restroom and picked up the trailhead. We hiked 3.25 miles using two trails, which were Plum Valley View and Duck Pond. The trail started out in the open and then through the juniper trees and oak trees. We crossed over creeks throughout the hike via eight bridges. They were all wooden bridges of different sizes. We hiked to the primitive camping area restroom. Then we took the duck pond trail, which was a small loop trail around a pond for .8 mile. We went up 500 feet in elevation. The trail was easy/moderate trail. There was a bench at the primitive camping area restroom. There were a few signs on what trail you're hiking and what directions to go. Sometimes they were confusing because the arrow was a little off. The duck pond was a very small pond in the trees. After doing duck pond loop we were back on plum valley trail. Plum Valley trail was .8 mile one way. Before going back to the camping area we hiked to Plum Valley Overlook, which wasn't too far. The view was very nice of the Tallgrass Blackland Prairie. As we hiked the trail there were stones with different paws prints of them of animals in the area. The stones were cottontail rabbit, bobcat, fox, raccoon and opossum. They were cute and were very accurate. We had a super hike for an hour and 45 minutes.

 

   

Plum Valley Overview

 

Opossum

 

Raccoon

 

Fox

 

Bobcat

 

Cottontail Rabbit

 

Duck pond

One of the eight bridges we hiked

We were back by 10:15 am. For lunch we had sandwiches. 

 

In the afternoon Larry read. He finished a book, started another one and finished it. He said that the first book he finished was a great book. After I finish reading Rules of '48 by Jack Cady I'll probably read this book.

 

 

 

Relaxing with a good book

 

 

I got caught up with my Solitaire games. I did the Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The two day event was Event: Solitaire World Tour of 30 games finished today. It took me a total of 6 hours, 42 minutes and 39 seconds, which put me in 9th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends, which I didn't play yesterday. I also played Angry Birds 2.

 

After playing my games I started to read Rules of '48 again. I started it during our last week long camping trip and hadn't read it since. I thought I might have to start the book from the beginning. But once I started reading it I remembered the characters. I continued reading in the evening.

 

In the evening we went on a walk around Coyote Crossing Camping Area. I walked for an hour and 20 minutes for 4 miles. Larry walked with me for 1.5 miles of the walk, which was a half hour. Then I walked the loop three more times. By the end of the day I had done 18,000 steps.