Dry socks?

When we were putting things into the day pack for our loop walk this morning, I considered throwing in an extra pair of socks for each of us. Nah, I thought, we won’t need them. If we come to a river that is too deep to cross, we’ll just turn around and come back like we have on other days. Bad decision. Just when we reached the point where it made more sense to go forward rather than turn around, the nice wide track we had been following turned into an overgrown, rocky, narrow path working its way up a steep arroyo.. The first six creek crossings worked out well, but no matter how many rocks Ned threw in at crossing number seven, it was clear I was not going to be able to keep my feet dry, much less make the required leap at the end to head up a muddy, slippery slope. After much agonizing, I did what I should’ve done in the first place. I just rolled up my trousers, walked right through, came out the other side and up the slope fine, and within five minutes didn’t even notice that my feet were wet. Ned’s were too, after all his efforts to help me. But wool socks do a great job of keeping one’s feet comfortable, wet or dry.

When we weren’t in the ravine, we had great views of the same mountains we saw yesterday in all their snowy glory. But today, we were very surprised that there was no snow on them. It seems it was just a lucky break that we did a trail yesterday that allowed us to see the snow that had fallen during Sunday’s storm two days ago.

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