A cold morning, one when staying in a warm bed would have
been nice. However, Ranger needed his
walk, so we headed out in the 45 degree air.
I ran the furnace for a little while on our return, to take the chill
off inside the RV.
This continued to be an amazingly quiet state park on a long
holiday weekend. This morning, a number
of people camping on the loop left so we were down to just four or five
occupied sites. That did change over the
course of the day, however, as new people arrived to fill in.
We took a shorter hike today, about an hour and a half,
again following some of the cross-country ski trails. We did have fairly good luck with
bird-watching, considering how few birds we have seen along the way on this trip. There were turkeys and grouse, as we have
seen regularly at this campground, but also a towhee, a pewee, and a
sapsucker. Still no sightings of
chukars, which I had hoped to add to the bird list for the trip.
The temperatures remained in the low 60’s all afternoon, but
with the sun shining, it was comfortable reading outside… and napping a little
as well.
If I walk over near the park office, I can pick up emails on
my phone, both gmail and MBC mail, but it’s not enough to post my blog, so I’ll
have some catching up to do tomorrow when we are in Missoula, Montana. Meanwhile, the temperatures are already
dropping after our dinner of cheeseburgers and beans, so I think it will be
another night of snugging down under the warm blankets for a good night’s sleep
in the quiet of Fields Spring.
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