7/11/2021

Its been hot, 105 friday 110 Saturday and 107 ish today. I got up at 5 made coffee did my stretches and got my 15 lb back pack and put on my old dress shirt that is 60 cotton 40 poly new hiking shirt and buff, trekking polls, gum to get that coffee funk taste out of my mouth and out the front. 

My goal is to get that old soccer back pack to 20lbs to replicate a frameless pack. Of course the sweat concentrates in the small of my back and since its so hot, my shirt gets soaked and my tidy whites. 

Here is the fox I saw from 2 days ago, I saw her again today. It just stares at me as I walk by talking to myself. I see allot of tracks in the mud racoons and the smaller prints must be the foxes, not sure about cat prints.  

Today I crossed under the bridge on Elk Grove Florin and kept walking. It was a new explore. It parallels Elk Grove Florin for about a block and makes a left turn. 

As I was climbing the steep levee bank I came down on something and slightly turned my left knee. Its fine shortly after. 

I also have been experiencing this phenom, your walking along and one foot (normally my right) steps on a stick or branch. This sometimes raises it up, the  trailing left foot then hooks under it and depending on the motion can trip you or fling and trip you at the same time. At first I thought what a rare occurrence but it happens too often to be happenstance.

Hike has me on EG creek and then I plunge into the bush and walk straight down the creek with dry beds fuming up on both sides. Its pretty soft and you just have to watch out for concrete blocks and stones and rabbit poop or leftover sheep shit. It widens out near the office buildings and then another deeper channel until you get to rock hard concrete by the bridge. Its like they were building the bridge and poured out a bunch of concrete and left it that way.  Past the bridge and by Leatherbys it again widens. There is bit of another bush wack as you approach the Laguna bridge. I has three chutes left right and middle. The chute closet to home depot is occupied by a homeless dude. It was easier to remember for me, hear home depot don't go. 

Thru that and you can follow the creek bed again and bail before it ends in a drying up mini lake. The trail then takes a winding left on a pretty nice dirt trail. 

From there by Zender park it opens up to a big area and walking on left side keeps you in shade. Finally you reach some berms and swales (depressions). There is also allot of tall grass before you get close to the third bridge under Lewis Stein. 

Here I like to take a piss and my body has quickly become used to this. After that its out on a really green soft creek bed which winds around a bit, there are some animal bones that the coyote must have eaten. 

There was a resident coyote that would follow me and bark at me. The fox did something similar, except no barking.