18 January 2016
I got a great night of sleep last night in spite of not having received my queen size air mattress. Sleep didn’t look too good earlier in the evening. The camper next to me was watching movies on tv with his windows open. The camper is not much to look at but the TV has surround sound. However, the movie was over around 8:30 pm and I slept well.
Again, park trail maps lie. Either that or my Garmin is badly misreading data points via satellite. There are two trails in the park with several connecting trails. The first trail, called the Torreya Trail, starts at the Gregory House and follows the Appalachicola River and then breaks away into the park. It is a 6.5 mile loop.
The second trail is the Torreya Challenge Trail. To get to the trail head, you have to hike in 1.03 miles (there calculation, not mine). Once you reach the trail head, it is a 6.5 or 6.75 mile loop, depending on the map or the bulletin board.
My Garmin said I did over 9 miles today. It felt like 9! I’ve hiked over 9 in a day twice last year: Grand Canyon South Rim and Point Reyes National Seashore – Glen Camp trail. I was as tired today as then.
The hike started out foggy and very humid. You could barely see the trail markers at first.
Florida State Parks have a convention for trail markers. Blue blazes on trees (actually blue spray paint) are for connecting trails and red/orange is for main trails.
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I met one hiker starting out. He went counterclockwise around the trail and I went clockwise. We met again at mile marker 3. He was a much faster hiker than I and he intended to do both loops today.
On my last leg of the trail, some young adults stopped where I was resting. One young man lives directly across from Broward College, South. His girl friend is majoring in marine biology.
The last two hikers I met are staying in the campsite. In talking with them after the hike, they started the hike at 11 am and finished before I did. I started at 10 am and met them on the way out. They also said their phone measured over 9 miles.
It seems I start out strong, but have to catch my breath (and get my heart rate down) on the hills. I’ve learned breath control in hiking and when I get to the top of a climb, I rest 45 seconds to 60 seconds – enough I don’t hear my heart pounding in my chest.
As the hike wears on, I end of resting part of the way up a climb. Towards the end of the hike, I may have to stop 3 or 4 times in a climb to get my heart rate down.
Depending on how I feel tomorrow, I’ll either do the Torreya Trail loop or drive to Falling Waters State Park to see the tallest waterfall in Florida.
