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twenty feet up. Of course, a bear could easily bend the tree over, but I’ve made the campsite as safe as I know how. Tonight I may find out whether or not this is a bear trail but I would prefer that it remain a mystery.
The trek up to the ridgetop was a little tricky. Devil’s Backbone is a descriptive name, and appropriate. This is a knife-like outcropping running NNE-SSW. Once on the top it’s possible to walk along it for perhaps a mile. But the near-verticsil rock faces on both sides make the last part of the ascent impossible, except at a few places. It requires some searching and a little good judgement to do it safely. The lower slopes are covered with lianas and, higher up, dense carpets of blueberries and other shrubs, so you can’t always see the rocky places where your feet land beneath the bushes on terra firma.
A pair of ruffed grouse exploded out of the brush just a few feet away, but I never saw them. I stopped for a few minutes on an open talus slope and a low-flying turkey vulture landed on a snag, at eye level and only about 20 yards away. After a quick perusal the big bird evidently decided I wasn’t dead yet and flew away.
There are several vultures that continually cruise along the rocky ridgetop. I study all of them carefully, in hopes that one of the big, black birds might be an eagle.
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