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unofficial honorary forest jannies
>be me
>driving to weird waterfall that's kinda like next to a developed tourist lake with a buncha houses on it
>no idea where it is
>google maps suggested it might be roadside so that's why I'm here
>miss a turn, turns out that that dirt road that I thought was just a driveway IS the road the waterfall is on
>turn back and go the right way
>now I am behind some literal grandma going 15 mph to the point where my feet ache trying to feather the pedal to match how slow she is going
>she takes the very last decent parking space which is just a pulloff on a dirt road
>park sort of parallel to the road, trying not to block anything
>boomer appears
>yells at me for blocking the road, I just say ok, not looking for a fight
>wait till family leaves, they take their sweet ass time and are yelling at their kids who don't want to get in the car
the waterfall was NOT roadside, but it wasn't far and it was pretty but jesus they need to add more parking
time 2
>hiking in the wilderness for 7 hours
>have not seen a soul
>now on a more popular/main trail through it at least
>guy comes up behind me "not to scare you but coming through"
>or something like that, he's going faster than me, who can barely walk, young guy
>him: oh im a forest service volunteer
>give him the dog that is following us and whose nose is covered in my poop from earlier that day
>random ass dog was the only thing we had seen, with a radio control collar
time 3
>driving to new-ish trail
>converted strip mine
>not one but a full fleet of forest service vehicles go past at one point like 20 of them
guess they were there to enjoy the trail
