The morning is spent walking the High Lonesome Trail, meandering through woods of pine, spruce, huckleberry, and skeeters. This is the representative view.
Sometimes we did pass through wetlands.
I met a trail maintenance volunteer who warned that a trail later in the day was not maintained, had a high degree of difficulty with deadfall, and the trail often disappeared. He said the forest service administrator would not permit his group to work on the trail, claiming it was too risky with beetle kill trees still standing.
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