Friday, February 17, 2006

Day3...the adventure continues. So where was I? Ah...yes, Horseshoe campground. So next stop was Welborne campground. To tell you the truth, there were so many campgrounds and so much ground that we covered....I don't remember that much about the hike to it. All I really remember is that it was alot like the hike from Shalebanks to Horseshoe. A little more in open valleys and feilds. Alot less in the trees. A little side note, by this time I have had come to the conclusion that between each campground you walk out of the trees, climb some hills till your farley high, walk along a ridge of the bank of Snake Indiana River then when you were about 5kms to the next camp, climb back down to the safety of the trees and a come to a spot that you thought would be a good place for a campground, but no.....you walked for a few more kms, after seeing many more spots good enough for a campground. Then after you have given up all hope and figured you weren't going to make it to the next camp, there just around the corner...was the camp. Just as good as all the rest of the spots you had seen. But the fact that you were there was good enough, that you didn't complain. So this campsite was not the only one we could have stayed at. There was one called Willow Creek Campground about 2.3kms from Horseshoe. It is more of a horse camp, but hikers can stay there too. I didn't smell that good. Personally I like Horseshoe much better. And since that was so close to Horseshoe I decided to go to Welbourne. It is about 15kms from Horseshoe and 50.6kms from the start. Plas it also had a Warden station. Of course we never saw any of the stations actually being used, but the ranger guy in Jasper said there would be wardens around. So I will just take his word for it, I mean he is a guy just sitting in a comfy office with a window. I guess he knows more than me, I was just on the trail that's all. Anyway, When we got to Welbourne we started a fire and created a whole bunch of smoke to see if we could smoke the mosquito's out, it sort of worked it you were directly in the smoke. My clothes smelled great after that, but could really tell over the socks I had been wearing for two days. So after we gave each other a fowl look, we decided to wash up. It's a little weird to be naked by the creek having a wash. You end up looking around for people watching you, except there's no one. It's creepy. If you want something crazy to do, that would be it. Strip down naked and just stand by a creek in the middle of no where, that will get the adrenaline pumping. So after we washed up, we had supper and brushed our teeth, since we hadn't in a couple of days. Man, that felt good. Almost like you were a human being agian. The one thing I remember is, that the was washroom was a freaking hike to get too. The trail was pretty much flat, but way back in the trees. In the middle of the night, it's a little freaky, when all you have is you little head light and some tp in hand. Agian all there was, was a really skinny log to sit on. And actually it was quite high, you kind of had to do a balancing act while trying to hold onto the tree. Also the trail to get there had a dead tree over it, so navigating through that was a little tricky in the dark. Shouldn't of had the extra crytal light that night.

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