This hike was beautiful (and quite an adventure)! Jeff, Rob, Laura and I started out at 10:30-ish, meandering through the giant redwoods. Jeff pointed out an edible plant. We let him try it first, watched him closely for any signs of distress, then tried it ourselves - tasty, it might work in a salad! We later realized that Jeff's survivor skills in the Redwoods could quite possibly save our lives!! We managed to get lost (early spring, sketchy trails, sketchy map, downed redwoods, and several other excuses!). We found another lost hiker - a nice Chiropractor named Adam (see Laura's photos). We banded together in our time of crisis, sent out scouts to check on possible trails, scaled canyon walls, leaped across raging rivers, until finally...we found our trail again. O.k. so it wasn't quite that dramatic - but it's all true! There was never any real panic - just the short, brief kind that you experience when you realize that you really are off the trail! It was great fun and after several hours we made it back to civilization! The Volcano Chicken Wings at the Brewery made everything right again with the world!
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Sending out the scouts was by far the best idea! Thanks Rob, Jeff and Adam for checking things out so we didn't end up like one of those stories on "I Shouldn't Have Survived."
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