A 124 acre natural area is next to my apartment complex with unmaintained trails. It is very wet and the drainage takes forever to dissipate. I have two pair of high(14 inches) waterproof boots. Tho old pair has flex cracks 7 inches up, vinyl and rubber patches did not stick. The new pair had the heels separate from the soles which led me to wondering why I had ice cold water inside my boots when I was walking thru 2 inches of water. So now I still wear the old boots and try to not go above 7 inches. Last night it rained and the pools over the trails swelled even farther. This led me to bushwack around one of the largest ones. Deer trails are not the greatest to follow, they can easily squeeze under trees 3-4 feet off the ground. I can't do that very well any more. Now when you meet someone coming toward you where an actual trail exists, they turn around and walk back. I assume to not get within 6 feet of you.
I have given up on the 10,000 steps a day, it was hard to get it in and do all the social events I had in the evening when we still had social events. Now I do an hour which gets me about 5-6,000 steps, except when I am wading through pools or bushwacking. It took me 4 hours to do this and only got in 8846 steps, normally I would do this in 2 hours.
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| Bushwacking looking backward |
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| Bushwacking looking forward |
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| This is the trail, some of the trees in the distance have orange paint dots on them signifying the route. |
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