I hadn't gotten any exercise in about a week and the wildflowers were in bloom, so I headed down to Henry W. Coe for this Saturday dayhike.

I had never been to the northern portion of the park, and the park HQ trailhead was somewhat closer than the southern Hunting Hollow park entrance. I left shortly after 6:30am and arrived at the park around 7:30. Upon arriving at the trailhead, I realized that I had left both my trail shoes and my park map at home. Never one to miss an opportunity to follow bad planning with bad decision making, I decided to head out anyway. I had worn my soccer flats, which provided nearly no support or traction. Luckily, most of the day's milage would be on relativly tame terrain.

Thus, with no real plan other than to head east till noon and then turn around , I hit the trail...