Wednesday, June 29, 2011

The Trillium Way, 2011, Upper Leg


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Looking to Side of the Bluff

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Across the Way


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Stonefort Creek From a New Vantage


While it is not a complete change, it is quite a different view from the bluff top. The trail opens some and offers interesting perspectives, particularly of places that you had just seen in the past hour. But here you're on the top and that old world is below.

I wouldn't recommend the upper trail on a rainy day, since runoff from the bluff top drives the moisture of the base's ecosystem. In many parts, gullies cut across the path. In other places, the topsoil has completed vanished, leaving bare rock for the water to run over. Though I do imagine that if you can handle the wetness the flowing water creates beautiful waterfalls which can be viewed from the lower leg of the trail.


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Water and Rock


In places, the trees thin and meadows bask in the sun. Then the forest returns to surround. Even here, occasionally flowers line the way.


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A Single Flower


Like other locations and other moments in Giant City, suddenly you stop...

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Dragonfly


...because a beautiful dragonfly pauses. Perhaps a few moments later, something rustles in the leaves and you're not quite sure so you look closely...

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One of the Locals


...because if you don't, you will certainly miss it among all those leaves. Perhaps even as the trail winds back down to the beginning, you might catch a mark left behind. For that moment, you also see...


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Remains of a Search

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