Aug 12, 2024
Adventures in my Hyrule!
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Adventures in my Hyrule!
I set a goal to hike 100km while living on the East Coast and managed to surpass it! Yay!
More photos from Providence Canyon, GA <1/21/23>. So much moss!! And someone put this adorable opposum sticker on a sign lol.
Nature Log #1
Location: Providence Canyon, GA
Date: 1/21/23
Notes: I saw many birds and even a herd of deer. The canyon is very deep and we got to go down into it and walk around. It was very beautiful!! I collected some moss, pine needles, a few rocks and creek water. There was SO much moss and lichen!! It was a great peaceful spot, tho the hills and steep cliffs made it a more difficult hike. The litter was minimal but there was still a bit (I cleaned as much as I could). There also weren't many people, though numbers grew as the day went on. The trails were very long too; one one 3 miles, one being 7 miles and even a 13 mile one! Would go again soon tho!!
Ratings: (out of 5 stars)
Difficulty- ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
Sociability- ⭐⭐ (2/5)
Beauty-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
Serenity-⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
Upkeep- ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
Length- ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
Had an interesting time of things yesterday.
I am nothing if not absent minded and forgetful. Which is why I totally forgot to zip the zipper on the pocket that holds my phone while I was hiking yesterday.
Near the end of my hike I stopped for a bit at a spot I love, a downed tree overlooking a pond. My favorite pond to swim and kayak in come summer in fact.
Between this tree and the pond is a rather steep incline, almost a cliff but not quite, and the ground there is all soft soil. Whenever you step off trail in that area it is all slipping and sliding as the soil is beyond loose.
the incline in question
So I take a seat there near the end of my short 5 mile day... and my phone falls out of the unzipped pocket, and to my horror tumbles down the hill towards the pond. It thankfully stops midway down at a tree stump.
looking down from where I was sitting to the stump where my phone was
Rather than panic, I reached into my backpack and got out the rope I keep in my emergency kit and tied it to a nearby tree before tying it to my waist. I then figured out the clearest route to the stump that would have me moving at enough of a diagonal I wouldn't be going straight down (or up on the way back) on super loose soil.
The disturbed soil you see there is well... me. The amount my presence disturbed the environment.
At the end of it all I felt rather full of adrenaline and mixed feelings.
On one hand the phone's fall was entirely down to my own stupidity, and with the sort of areas I hike in I was EXTREMELY lucky this happened here and not a cliff face on the side of a mountain.
On the other I am really very !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that I was able to successfully retrieve the phone before panic set in (literally as soon as I got back up from getting it, I sat down, continued some fandom conversations I was having online on the phone and then the panic over what just happened hit me). It makes me feel that much more confident in my skills as a hiker that I can trust myself to get through something like that?
I am trying to figure out how to film my hikes and I def. have not figured the process out, but I think I’m going to share my attempts to figure this whole video recording and editing thing out?
Anyway this is one of a few videos I tried recording while on Mount Frissell in November 2021.