Day: March 22, 2020

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Saw quite a bit of Partridge Run today…

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Saw quite a bit of Partridge Run today… 🚶

Its really good to get away from the craziness of it all. Well except for the dog bite, that wasn’t cool. But I did get to see a lot of nature and not a lot of people outside of the area around the ponds.

Started on Gifford Hollow Road, took Old Partridge Run Road to Woodcock Truck Trail, hiked back to the Gulf, then up Ravine Road to Sickle Hill Road to Beaver Truck Trail past Upper and Lower Beaver Ponds to the Long Path to Tubbs Pond to Fawn Lake to White Birch Pond to an imaginary line bushwhacking over to Upper Switz Kill Falls to Old Partridge Run Road and eventually back to where I parked on Gifford Hollow. Those are some impressive metes! I had enough time I probably could have headed a little farther west in Partridge Run but I wanted to stay on gravel roads so I wouldn’t sink out of sight and have soggy, blistered feet for the hike back to the truck.

And no I still don’t like Baxter the Pit Bull on Sickle Hill Road. At least he didn’t draw blood.

A few thoughts

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Well I didn’t expect to get bit by a pit bull named Baxter on Sickle Hill Road. Good ol rednecks dog, protecting the family homestead out onto the road. The jeans I was wearing was soon to be trash at any rate. Maybe I’ll use them for mopping up my messes for a while before donating them. Cold with the big hole in the pants.

I saw that trailer that is off grid on Ravine Road has a bunch of solar panels rigged up for electricity. Bet it works good for them. Probably a really nice homestead too.

Lots of people hanging out at Partridge Run, fishing and scoping out turkey. Good for them, it’s a great place for solitary, wild recreation and you might even bring home dinner in an era when it’s getting harder to find food on the grocery shelves with Corona crazies everywhere.

Better keep moving. I am about three hours away from my truck and sunset is in three hours. At least the days are long with the time change.

Cold but sunny this afternoon

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Cold but sunny this afternoon… 😎 

It makes for nice hiking with the frozen ground and the sun is bright but everything has that early spring brown to it. Kind of wish I had sunglasses to wear and brought sunscreen as March sunburns can be bad as there is very little shade.