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Wood Canyon Trail, 9/6/2025

Wow, has it really been a month--over a month!--since I’ve been on a trail? What happened? Injury. After Copter Ridge, my left leg was hurting: the knee, which felt twisted (for example, just sitting figure-4 cross-legged with my left leg on top produced warning pain around the kneecap); and the hip (which was sore in the mornings). I rested the following week--no hiking--then again the week after when I was on travel in Half Moon Bay. But even after two weeks, it still felt fragile. The pain only flared at the extremums, but it was sharp enough that I worried if I pushed it, it would convert to persistent. So I didn’t hike. And didn’t hike. And didn’t hike. I’d like to say some resurgent desire broke the inertia, but nothing so heroic: it was obligation. I’d volunteered for trail work last week, and if I said I’d be there, I gotta be there! It was trail assessment work--no tools, no decompacting or shovel or tamping, just walking and observing--but it forced me onto a trail. And the l...