Capture California, the Game-2012
Adventure: 008, Hike 121 –
Lost Lake Nature Trail
Team: Thing One, Thing Two
Date: September 15, 2012
Location: Lost Lake, Fresno
Hike Info:
Trail: Lost Lake Nature Trail
Distance: 1.5 miles
Duration: 0:31
Elevation Rise: 30'
Picture this, it is approaching 100 degrees, but there is some
shade as you walk along the San Joaquin River. You have spent the
morning cleaning up parts of this same river a few miles downstream
and you have gotten a pretty satisfying meal as a reward for your
work. Is this good or what—well, maybe the heat could be turned
down a few degrees, but it is the end of summer and we are getting
pretty used to it.
Well, as Tracy Salcedo-Chourre says in her Best Easy Day Hikes
Fresno, the urban interface often brings into sharp relief the
value of preserving parkland near cities. You find out pretty
quickly what she means. The cool and pleasant water flowing by,
stately oaks along the trail or the Fremont cottonwood and red
willows hanging over the trail give a sense of peace and cool amongst
the heat. But then graffiti starts showing up, spoiling some of the
scenic attractions of the area. As Salcedo-Chourre says, it may help
a bit to view the graffiti as tree—and rock—art, but it does not
for me. Somehow the area has more beauty than the art ever will.So we go along ignoring the art, and enjoying the water and shrubs, and birds, and squirrels, and lizards, and …
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