Well, not *everything*. I didn’t camp out, but I started out exploring around Holsten Creek in daylight. After that, I drove to Long Point to shoot the colorful twilight on the White Oak River. I went from there to a quiet spot (Long Point was overrun by “campers” and one of them was running the engine on their RV to provide power to their refrigerator, so it was noisy and smelled of gas fumes). I started a small fire in the woods so I could heat up something to eat and a tasty, hot beverage. Finally, after Fred Bear showed up and the fire had burned down, we put out the fire and went for a hike on the Weetock trail from Long Point Rd to the culvert.
Regarding my trek across and along Holsten Creek: I parked on Holsten Creek Rd, just past a small stream that passes under the road. There was a pretty broad area where I could get my car off the road. That’s important, because logging trucks travel up and down that road. I hiked towards the creek, crossed over on a fallen tree, hiked to higher ground (it’s pretty swampy in some places near the creek) and walked along the ridge for a while before I followed a field road to HW 58 (just to see where it came out, in case I wanted to use that to access the area in the future). I could have walked back to my car on the road (the sun was slipping away), but I decided I had enough light to go back through the woods. Since I had no trail, and I still wanted to explore, I just kept the setting sun behind me and worked my way back across the creek and to where I parked.
I should add that I accumulated almost 20,000 steps on Dec 5. That’s a record since I recently acquired a step counter. I’m sure I can beat that when I get a full day of hiking, but I have to start somewhere!
