Beautiful day here, clear blue skies, fall is in the air, the leaves are just starting to color up some. We will take a walk when the wife wakes up (she sleeps late) and then I'll settle down for the usual.
I have a bunch of shoulder exercises to do each day and that keeps me moving around a bit, and the kid in Texas sent me these exercise bands that I use some on my legs. One exercise seems pretty good for my hamstrings.
We did a two mile walk in the mountains at Kilmer NF and both of us "noticed". I had always wanted to see that forest, it's out of the way, and it's "interesting" I think, but one visit is good. It's not that much different from regular forest. It has some 400 year old eastern poplars that were saved from logging. Very little old growth forest remains east of the Mississippi. The forest we see in the Smokies etc. are new growth, everything is 90-100 years old and a bit different eco system.
We took the Cherohala Skyway, which is pretty, but also is out of the way and doesn't connect much of anything to anything. A lot of bikes in that road as you can do a loop with Tail of the Dragon that way. One guy was on a bicycle. That is pretty brave, and he was young.
