The Day After

The Trail crew made it's first foray into the wilderness on the day after North Dakota declared total insanity.  Four of us hiked up the trail to Four Peaks.  In the parking area as we left were two ramshackle bum like people, a man and a woman.  The man was huge and wearing a filthy set of sweat pants, and the woman was dragging on a weed.  Since Kadizzle has cleaned that parking area many times of trash he hoped they would clean up their mess.  They used one of the large rocks bordering the parking lot as part of their fire pit.   Interviewing the degenerates Kadizzle found out they intended to hike to an abandoned amethyst mine.

After the trail crew put in a hard day of work clearing brush from the trail Kadizzle returned to the truck ahead of the rest of the crew.  About half way back Kadizzle ran into the lumper and his girlfriend on their way to the mine to search for treasure.  Apparently it took them about six hours to hike three quarters of a mile.  There speed would need to be reported using decimal points.  Kadizzle never saw the woman without a cigarette in her mouth.  Kadizzle could not help but notice the frying pan hanging from the pack. It appeared the people had never cleaned it and they had been frying tar. 

The views from the peak area are incredible in every direction and it was the first time Kadizzle had been up there in about ten years.