On January 23, 2010, eight people turned out for
a hike on the River View Trail. At the parking
lot, it was cold and foggy. A deputy sheriff
stopped his patrol car where we were meeting
to “check usout” . (Are we beginning to look
like hard cases???) Lois asked him if there was
ice on 138 and he checked with a buddy who
reported that there was ice at Toketee. Setting
up a caravan of three cars, we made our way to
the trailhead parking lot with no ice problems.
We left a car at Bogus Creek for a shuttle, no
one seemed to want to do the eight miles to
Fall Creek Falls. The day got better and
better, some sun was peeking out, even though
there was ice along the roadside.
As we hiked along the
trail, the sun prevailed and it was beautiful
hiking weather. The charred remains of trees
burned in the Williams’s Creek fire were
awesome reminders of the cataclysmic firestorm
of last summer.
The trail has been
bulldozed all along the old roadway making for
soft and muddy footing. We saw numerous burnt
tree trunks that had been removed from the
road. When we got to Bogus Creek where the hike
was scheduled to finish, five members decided to
press on to Fall Creek Falls because hiking was
just too nice to quit there. Linda, Camelle
and Lois hiked down to shuttle the cars from
Steamboat to Fall Creek Falls.
Linda and Lois hiked up to
the top of Fall Creek Falls and met the group
for lunch in the sunshine. Does this club have
some wonderful weather arrangement with the
powers that be? It was such a beautiful day
followed the next day which was cold, nasty and
rainy. Again, we lucked out!
