Natural Levee

Today i strap on the skies again, and wear almost the same as yesterday.
Because i did not want to get cold again. Of course i was overdressed and started transpiring, which is a no no too.
But not to worry it is only minus 5C.

Today i brought my watch. It takes me 1 hour to reach the closest Mendenhall river meadow. That is, along the way i still work on the trail. Last week i started this new trail through the woods. Now I am widening it out by removing dead branches on the spruce trees, removing small standing dead trees, and removing small dead trees on the ground. some time in the future I will bring my little saw, and will cut a few life branches and some small trees and bigger dead fall. That is my life as a trail maker.

Coming to the meadow, the sky is beautiful, different blues and all sort of clouds. The sun doesn't want to get out of the clouds. And i take no photos.
My goal today is finding a natural trail in direction of the '911 pond'. I have it on an aerial photograph.
I go West and follow high ground through very open forest, to the next meadow. AH this is a big one, I cross it in its full length, South-West. Sure enough there at the end, are three openings. According to the aerial photo, one should continue.
So it does, i think it is an old shore line from the river, it is an old natural levee.

Thank you Robert for saying; "getting caught up in the mystery!" Yes, that is what i love.

The mystery of this natural path; when a river goes through it throws up a levee higher then itself. And, i surmise, that because it is higher then the surrounding ground, it was to dry for trees to grow on.

foot note: Instead of the word 'levee' i was using the word 'dike'. I realized my mistake as i was reading a geology book. I corrected it in this post but i might have used the word 'dike' before, where i meant 'levee'. (My first language and surroundings being Dutch, i hope you forgive me my mistake.)