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“A flat easy going trail, if you don’t mind the webs.”
Early Morning Hike
On the westside of the Running Y Ranch, near Klamath Falls Oregon, is a trail used by hikers, bikers and equestrians. In fact at the trailhead is the equestrian center for the ranch.
It’s best to get an early start, especially in the summer. If you’re out early enough, you can come across plenty of birds and animals. The Red Tail Hawks and Bald Eagles are plentiful
This Bald Eagle was looking out over the lake for some breakfast
Wearing shorts turned out to be a bad idea because of all the webs everywhere, even in the middle of the trail.
and hiking sticks had a dual purpose here by keeping some of the webs off your shoes but believe me, there’s still plenty on your shoes.
Our Fitbits, Apple Watch and Oura ring all measured about 2-1/2 miles from the trailhead out to the lake, but you can see from our map, we didn’t stay on the main trail the whole way so it might be a little less than that.
At the end of the trail you break out into a large open area at the end of the peninsula. We flushed out some Egrets as we walked out.
Then we all posed for a Selfie to prove we made it. Not trying to make too much out of all the webs, but we expected the hike back to be less of them, since we collected so much on our sticks and shoes.
That wasn’t the case 🙂