The Lady MacDonald trail had been re-opened, so I decided to head up there on Sunday. No-one to hike with, but it’s usually a pretty busy trail… then for the first hour of hiking I didn’t meet a single person. It was beginning to get a little spooky, and I was singing the Shoo Bears song (surprisingly similar to the Shoo Fly song… which apparently has a chorus, and completely different lines to those I know of, but anyway), and wielding my cougar-hitting stick, just in case.
People started appearing as I got higher though, and just as I was about to hit the final ridge to the summit, a group warned about a bear that was ‘just on the other side’. It must have wandered off, for I didn’t catch even a glimpse of it.
Lovely warm day for hiking – singlets and shorts and a dusty trail in the sun.
