Compose the sixth pages of Psalm 102 and At a Medical Deposition.
then out the door on the 154th day of summer,
high 86 across the Valley
and
into
the
Foothills,
but
considerably
cooler
towards the
destination -- namely, once again...
after
the
ascent
of
the
Sierra
beneath
smoky
cumuli
drifting now northeast from the Yosemite-area Rim Fire,
descending
amidst
various
cliffy /
sloping
splendors
into
the
Donner
and
Truckee
Canyon
region,
up
against
the
Pinnacles
and
western
wall
of
Rose
Ridge,
careening
past
Mogul
and
a
definitely
smokin'
Reno,
south
on
clearing
395,
southeast
on
darkening
491... to
Galena Creek
Regional Park.
First a
quick stroll
on the
Interpretive Trail,
then the Frostian (Robert, rather than David) path perhaps less trodden,
along Jones Creek
to
the
Loop
Trail,
backtracking
to
the
Staging
Area,
down
the
access
road
to
431,
once
more
reversing
course
to
the
increasingly chilly
Visitors Center.
After a brief exploratory run to Whites
Creek
Trailhead near
Timberline Road,
plunge in darkness downhill for a mas rapido dinner divertissement (for little dinero),
then past the shining lights of the
northern gambling
Mecca back to point of origin.
