July 12 - 2nd Hike - Huddart Park

Here I am posing either before or after the hike at Huddart Park.
This hike was very beautiful - a bit hillier than the earlier one but not so bad.
When I was driving to the park (and going a little too fast) I saw a family of deer trotting by on the left side of the road. It was a doe and at least 2 fawns.

As you can see in the picture, now I have my lovely 100 oz Helena Camelbak backpack. This hike was like night and day compared to the last one. I felt so much better.
Better hydrated, and wearing capri pants instead of jeans made me a lot cooler.

This hike I chose to hike with the "medium" group.

Our hikes are done by time not by distance. So this one was a 3 hour hike, but depending on the pace of the group, a hiker might hike more or less distance in that time.

For the medium-fast and fast groups, they usually have a little offshoot planned out so that they can continue hiking if they "finish" before the 3 hours is over, without having to backtrack.

Here's one of the groups I was in - I think this was combined with another group at a break because Joy is in this picture (taken with her camera on a timer) and I wasn't hiking with her most of the time.



On the July 19 hike I was in the medium group and we did do about 15 min of the "harder" trail - it was up a hill so I was glad that we turned around fairly quickly.