Saturday, July 05, 2025

Washington SD to Esten beach 2025 07 05

 Saturday, July 5th

David led 4 from Washington snow dump to Esten beach. Sunny, warm breezy day.. Mossssies not too bad.
Beach break, then along the coast to Crystal lake, past that and on to Angel.. then after a false start, we found the woodpecker system and back to the parking..
lots of wildflowers, red and yellow hawkweed, vetch, daisy, blackberry, trefoil, heal all, blue bell lily, and more.
frogs in ponds, toads on the trail, the odd squirrel, woodpecker, robin, sparrow,
getting warmer as the day wore on.
2 new hikers, Danni and Steve, Sue swept..
3 hours, about 8 k I figure.