Legs and Borders

Great day on the trail! Weather was excellent, cloudy at first, sunny from midday. Path although muddy and wet to start with transitioned into well maintained trail just after the river crossing at mile 531. My feet were back in action after a bit of cutting off dead blister skin with nail clipper yesterday. The ranger responsible for catching 'vermin' in the area had a gruesome habit of leaving carcasses right on the trail, perhaps to teach hikers a lesson about death. There was a rotting goat skeleton, a hanging possum in it's macabre head trap hanging off the tree, and a big fat rat in an 'egg' trap, all within 5 metres of each other. Few miles later I met a hunter walking down the trail, with a scary silver hunting rifle looking like something out of a shooter game. He was hunting deer, I told him I saw few feral goats today, to which he responded that local hunters had a competition running recently of who would kill the most of them. Cl...