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Bikepacking in Henry Coe State Park 2008 Day 4: Hike from Paradise Lake up Rooster Comb Trail and Orestimba Creek Road to Robison Creek and back I'm boiling water for my backpacking meal tonight at dusk; usually I wait until after dark for some unknown reason
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Day 4: Hike from Paradise Lake up Rooster Comb Trail and Orestimba Creek Road to Robison Creek and back

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I filter some cold water from the spring behind Willson Camp

I filter some cold water from the spring behind Willson Camp

Date: August 31, 2008, 16h58

I'm boiling water for my backpacking meal tonight at dusk; usually I wait until after dark for some unknown reason

Tonight's meal is backpacker's pantry Jamaican BBQ Chicken, which is pretty good, but I remember it being better for some reason. Perhaps the heat has killed my taste buds, despite my desire and need for calories.

More groups of ducks (if that's what they are) return to Paradise Lake tonight with the whistle of pre-explosion fireworks and I'm amused again.

After dark, I keep hearing coyote yips and howls. It sounds like they are in different hillside locations and calling to each other across the little valley here.

Crickets hum and I write notes about today's hike, which is the longest I've hiked in this kind of heat.

Continue to Day 5: Mountain-bike ride up Red Creek Road to Upper San Antonio Valley and back from Paradise Lake.

Date: September 03, 2008, 19h38
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I'm boiling water for my backpacking meal tonight at dusk; usually I wait until after dark for some unknown reason
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