Thursday, January 27, 2022 – Final Recon in Corbett, OTL Meeting

Hi Sweetie!
A long, tiring day! It started out with yet another problem with the T-shirt design that I had to fix, I sure hope that job is done now! After that, and chores, and breakfast, I finally saddled up Flash, loaded him into the small trailer and took the forty minute drive back down to the Dupuis/Corbett border, discovering a bunch of cars around the FTA trailhead parking area, so I couldn’t park there. I thought maybe they were having a work day, so I passed by and saw that the next gate was open, so I parked along the side of the road and left from there. I entered Corbett one gate south of the FTA, but soon managed to find in before too long, and took it all the way to Gopher Canal, which is where we usually come up off the big C-8 canal, the one I’m trying desperately to get away from. Turns out, we can! Though there are some tight spots on this trail, a few knee-knocker trees if you’re not careful, it was only ankle deep pretty much the entire way. It’s PRECISELY the kind of riding I’ve been promoting, wild, swamp, wetlands, and much safer than trying to navigate through the very deep waters on the roads. Once I got to Gopher Canal and headed up the road, I passed the usual turnoff to explore the area that Anita and Scott found the other day, and which was apparently part of the original plan for the trail in the first place, and found an excellent, mostly dry alternative to getting to Camp I, so no wading through lakes to get there! Whoo-hoo! It might be a tad longer, but it is definitely worth it! I managed to mark all the way from Camp I back to the Tomato Grade, so the only thing left is from Gopher Canal to Tomato Grade, which is barely half a mile, I can just about do that on the morning of the ride! It ended up being almost 17 miles up and back, so it was 5:00 when I got back to camp, I barely had enough time to feed the horses, feed myself, change my clothes and rush out of here in time to get to my first “in-person” OTL meeting back in Jupiter at 7:00. That lasted two hours. Then I stopped at Jeff’s on the way back to pick up a package that I had delivered there, it was still out by the gate so I didn’t even have to go in, which was fine considering it was so late. I discovered one of my headlights is gone, well not the brights, just the low beam, so it was a bit tough seeing out here in the pitch dark of the country. Something else I need to take care of tomorrow! Long day ahead, so I’m heading for bed right now! Good night, babe! Love you!

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