Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio

The one thing about hiking is getting there early. This is for several reasons. some of the reasons are to be ahead of everyone, sometimes it's for a photo and I don’t want other bipeds in it, less noise, and now so I can get spiderwebs in my face. The spider webs show me that no animal or human has been on that part of the trail today.  

I arrived at the Beaver Creek State Park parking lot at 0800. This would be my baptism under fire for the new chest pack.   

I would start out with my battery pack today as the prime power source for the GoPro13. The set up worked better than I had hoped.   

I will utilize this set up when fishing in the future.   

I put on a hike together in the park consisting of 13 plus miles. I will be concentrating on the North Country Trail today.  

The trail goes through the state park. I would take it to the west where route 7 reaches.  

This section is not used to a lot. I had my Garmin 64sx and I could reconnoiter to find the trail. Yea this section is where I saw bear scat and believe I heard a bear huff at me. I was on the high ground, and I just kept on trucking.  

The GoPro13 does not do well in low light scenarios. The videos look ok, but I know they could be better. I just wanted to mention that some of the quality is not the best and explain the reason.  

I only saw one person physically on the trail I was hiking today. I think the wet trail and the number of mosquitoes scared a lot of people away.  

On a wildlife note, I saw more rabbits today thanks to seeing them in the wild in a long time. It was nice to see the numbers I did.  

At the start of the hike, it was nearly 70 degrees. With the amount of fog in the valley it was going to be humid and hot. I had three liters of water today.  

I was wearing shorts and long sleeves. I have found that in the hottest conditions that 3 liters will work for me.   

The morning weather was foggy, very foggy. The GoPro had several issues as you can tell when I was under canopy. The pace was ok, I truly could have gone faster, but I would have paid for it dearly on the return loop. I backed off each time I found myself leaning into the hike and swinging my arms.

I notified the NCT folks about the bear. I will do another section of the NCT this week weather dependent.

Be well folks and drink water!

Sonder