After 10 days out in the woods, it was time for a few days off. While the guys sat around drinking beer, eating meat (one night we had a dinner that consisted of ribs, steak and corn on the cob), and fishing, us girls made the most of our time off by sightseeing, hiking and biking.
We went for a bike ride along the Bear Creek Greenway which is a scenic 19 mile bike ride that starts in Ashland and ends in Central Point. When we got to a stretch in Medford, the back tire on my bike decided to lock up on me. It was the oddest thing. It didn’t look as if it was getting caught in the chain or anything. After fooling around for a few minutes, it finally decided to work. At that point, I decided to not go farther. There was a nice park that I sat and ate lunch. The ride back to Ashland, was slow and my legs felt hurt from having to work twice as hard. Luckily, a couple of the guys on my team know a thing or two about bikes. One of them looked at it and came to the conclusion that the tire was bent and did what he could to fix it. Hopefully, the problem is remedied for a while.
The hike we did was by far one of the best hikes that I have done. It could of also been the fact, that I hadn’t been on a good hike in a while and was overdue for one. Our hike was along the Pacific Crest Trail by Lincoln and we hiked to Pilot Rock with a view of Mt. Shasta and the surrounding hills. We hiked at night and on the way back, watched the sunset. The silhouette on the mountains was awesome. Two of my favorite things in the whole world, are sunsets and stargazing. Experiencing both of them in a mountain setting is even better.
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