big rock, candy (mountain) at 2 mile run

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Candy and I hiked up to the Big Rock at 2 Mile Run this morning. Just a dumb little thing I was thinking of - the song Big Rock Candy Mountain. I lost the map halfway to the rock - it must have fallen out of my pocket after we crossed the last bridge (I remember having it then) and either we could have turned back to find it or I could try and trust my memory of the map. I decided to trust my memory. We did go on a wrong trail for a ways but after a while I thought we should backtrack and try to find a different trail. Which was the correct one. Stuff like this always reminds me of a quote attributed to Danial Boone. "I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for a few days." I wish I could be that confident - I like a map and a marked trail. After our hike I wanted to go to the park office and see if they had any better maps of the trails. They had 3 - the regular map with everything but updated from the internet version and one with horse trails and one with bike trails. Maybe the new maps will help me in the future to figure out what is going on there.



Two Mile Run creek.



Bend in the creek.



Fungus that looked like little roofs.



Candy at the Big Rock. It wasn't that big of a rock compared to some we have around here but for Two Mile Run park it was.



Graffiti.



Side of the rock.



This rock reminded me of a snowy whale.



A little animal must have made this into a retreat to eat some seeds.



Rock texture and me.



Holey crevasses.



Tiny caves.



Goodbye to Big Rock.



Sporangium growing up through the snow from some moss on a log.



Closeup. I just thought it was interesting that they decided to come up through the snow today - it is pretty cold - below freezing. This is the only place I saw them.