I had a guided hike yesterday and I always hike the trail ahead of time, to look for interesting things to point out, or for problems (like several downed trees at Fort Churchill that had to be removed--beaver activity). Also when I first started at Fort Churchill and later at Washoe, it was to familiarize myself with the trail before I had a group of people with me!
I took a 3 second video of gulls in the wind. I kept seeing wave after wave of gulls blowing by, so I finally decided to try to get them on video.
Yesterday it was a good thing I hiked the trail ahead of time, because I had planned a loop. Unfortunately, the section we needed to complete the loop was under a foot of water! I walked all around, trying to find a way around it, but there was no way, without hiking a lot longer than I had advertised. I finally decided we could walk the dune trail to the beach, then take the South Loop trail back to the parking lot. It worked pretty well, but it took me walking for a solid 2 hours before the hike to figure it out....
One of the lower areas, underwater. A hiker pointed out that with the water and sand dunes, we could almost be at the beach, except for the snow-covered mountains in the background!
I went home for lunch, did the guided hike, cleaned the campground restrooms and took out garbage, and I was TIRED! It was a good day though; I got to be outside most of the day and everyone I talked to was great.
The seven hikers I had with me were mostly Sierra Club members, so they were excited about hiking. One woman who leads some of those hikes offered to advertise Washoe's hikes on a meetup.com group and she gave me her card. That might get us some more people on our hikes.
Seeing the lake like this makes it hard to image the dry lakebed I used last year for my guided hikes, and even full moon hikes!
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