Blue coyotes
Posted on | December 20, 2009 | Comments Off
I wish they weren’t blue. It’s not that they are unhappy, but that my camera in “program automatic” mode just happens to leave out the red and green information. More than 50 great pictures lost. Well, not necessarily great, but possibly usable.
I hiked from Kennedy Grove to Inspiration Point along the Bay Area Ridge Trail. Not my best hike. I got off trail (read: lost) twice. With written directions and signs. Twice. I have explanations, but they probably wouldn’t sound very plausible. The good thing about this, as I was making a GPS track is that it was an out and back hike. So. I made a second track: one without pauses or misdirection.
The trail has three distinct sections: along San Pablo Dam, the Eagles’ Nest Trail, and the Nimitz Road. As the trail goes along San Pablo dam, it is alternately grassy trail and paved road and moves through built up areas. Then the hike up Eagles’ Nest is a moderate to steep climb to Nimitz Road. Nimitz Road is paved and goes along the ridge top. And crowded.
But when I first got up there, I saw a coyote coming towards me. It veered off about 50 feet away, and another was coming from the other direction. First coyote goes into submission on its back. Then they part and continue in the direction they were first headed.
They are blue because my camera is malfunctioning. Not my favorite hike.
Walk well. God is love.
