A friend willingly went with me today on the Bonita Point or Loco Triangle explore. We didn't actually make it to the point but had fun trying. We had to walk through forest impacted by dead log upon dead log, in pickup stick fashion.
It took a long time to even get near Bonita Point but we decided to turn around short of our destination when we encountered a young aspen forest full of downed logs laying in wait like hungry crocodiles eager to snap our limbs off. We tried hard to plow through the aspens - there was no easy way around - but we were greatly slowed by all the obstacles hiding within.
By now, it was late afternoon so we turned around and picked our way again through all the downed wood and yet another interminable aspen thicket. Trying to break free of that thicket made me sympathize with insects that get caught in a spider's web - we felt entangled every way that we turned!
We were so happy to get back to the bunch grass of Cañada Bonita meadow! Whoever said that bunch grass is difficult to walk in has never tried to walk in an area clotted with downed wood!
I'll probably never again be able to talk someone into accompanying me on that crazy hike. My friend says she'll cross it off her list for now unless I discover a super-highway that leads to Bonita Point!
We saw 3 piles of fairly fresh bear scat. We were glad we didn't see the bear(s)!!