And… GOAL!
Just finished doing the last un-hiked trails at Mt Diablo State Park. What started as a errant thought earlier this year, led to me attempting to hike all those little out of the way trails and roads that I had never hiked before.
The COVID-19 restrictions helped keep me closer to home than normal, so I didn’t even need the whole year to finish the list of trails. Feels good.
Considering I even hiked some utility roads and other unofficial trails, I feel like I covered a lot of territory during the last 7+ years of hiking at Mt Diablo. I didn’t even bother counting the paved roads used by cars that I occasionally had to walk along to reach the next trail. Only now in retrospect did I have the thought that I should have hiked all those paved roads while the park was closed to cars. Opportunity lost. I guess I could always try a real early start to get in before the gates open.
I now have to decide if trying to do ALL the trails in a single calendar year is possible or even a good idea. Looking at the trails I had covered before 2020, I could see being able to hike them again in 8-10 day hikes.
So finish one goal (finish hiking all trails in the park) and gain two more:
1) Hike all the paved roads from the North and South Gates to the Summit
2) Re-hike all the trails I had hiked prior to 2020 by the end of 2020.
Always good to have goals. 🙂
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