"Feb 11 was a bright, brisk, bracing, breath-taking morning for a hike.
Four hikers braved the road up to the Fire Tower Lookout and the Yellow Trail
in the Sheriff Creek . So brave we did not even use snowshoes !!!! There was
ice on the branches of trees at the top of the Fire Tower Lookout. It was
spectacular to see those "crystals" against the sun. There were some fox,
squirrel and mouse tracks on the fresh snow. We did not hear too many birds.
One distressing part of the hike was seeing numerous piles of dog
excrement along the Yellow Trail. It makes you wonder how many diseases can
be spread from one dog to another by sniffing at dog excrement. "