Guadalupe River State Park 4/29/18

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Guadalupe River State Park, near Boerne, TX

Ian, Court, Biff, Finn

Warm, partly cloudy, low 80s

3.5 miles give or take

Another new state park for us!  We have been wanting to get out to this park for a while and I’m glad we finally made it.  We started off at the “Discovery Center” and then combined a few trails for about 3 miles total.  The dogs were very happy and are both such good hikers.  The prickly pears and other cacti were blooming nicely.  There was a nice view of the river from above as well.

We then headed down to the river to cool off and eat lunch.  There were a ton of people enjoying the river, including some not well-behaved dogs, so we went pretty far down the river trail to find a spot.  The first spot I chose ended up harboring a bee hive, which sent me into flashbacks of when I was a little kid in Pennsylvania and got stung about 100 times.  Luckily I wasn’t allergic.  I made an immediate u-turn and went back up the river trail in the opposite direction before finding a semi-quiet spot to put our feet in the water and eat.  It’s amazing how good food tastes after even a short hike in decent heat.  I can’t even imagine the hunger and then satiation that thru-hikers experience.

After the river, we took another short trail a half mile or so more through the moss-covered oaks and then headed back to the car.  On the way home we stopped at Sonic and got a slush and a limeade to cap off the warm day.