I hiked a shorter distance today than I did last Sunday, with a similar amount of uphill, but last Sunday was in the high 60′s and today was in the mid 90′s. UGH! I am completely wiped out, that heat just sucked big-time!
So I’m just sittin’ here with The Mighty Fang purring on my lap, vegging out. Was gonna write something about Medicare and the Supremes, but just too tarred to do that.
– Badtux the Tired Penguin
just too tarred to do that.
So being a penguin, would that make you tarred and feathered?
P.S. Has there ever been a fad for penguin-feather hats?
Poor baby.
Bukko, I have certainly never heard of a fad for penguin-feather hats. That would be just horrible.
Tarred and feathered… har!
Spent that weekend (and the previous week) at the desert/forest interface in the Eastern Sierra. Hot. Not egregiously hot, but the shoes I put on in the morning didn’t fit by noon…and were no more than 2/3 the required width by late afternoon. (I have since acquired some Tevas with lots of adjustable straps, but that didn’t help last week.) VERY annoying and limiting to have to tramp about one’s property in slippers, especially since the slippers have open toes and the ants BITE.
Mind you, Tevas have open everything, but at least they’re a few mm off the ground…
Karen, I was wearing Chacos (which are a bit stiffer and heavier than Tevas, good for edging in on scree). Otherwise my feet would have been totally wrecked. That said, my feet were definitely feeling out of sorts at the end of my tramp in the heat and scree…
Where the heck did you find scree in the South Bay hills? Or were you further afield?
Oops, missed your query about scree. You can find scree in Big Basin in two places — the Chalks on the north side of the park, or McCreary Ridge on the south side of the park. Both rise above the redwood forest into hot dry manzanita highlands because they’re above the fog layer that redwoods need to grow.
However, my reference to scree and my Chacos was primarily in reference to my use of them in the more rugged terrain of the southeastern desert mountains (Inyos, Panamints, Slate Range, etc.). That kind of terrain is why I abandoned the previous Teva sandals I tried, the Tevas were too thin and you could both feel the rocks through the soles and you couldn’t edge or heel into scree. When I’m in boot territory due to mud or snow (about all that’ll get me out of my sandals), I’ll carry the lighter Tevas for stream crossings, but that’s all I use them for nowadays.