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Well, we read the map wrong, so we did the hike from the back end– technically a little shorter, but definitely “off-road”. Piper waged her protest of being included in this short family excursion by painting a gash on her leg. After a lovely story about a bear that attacked her from a second-story window and she barely escaped with her life, she stopped talking. However, her communication was fine; the picture I most want to publish, but won’t in an effort to be thoughtful, is a beautiful shot of Piper staring straight at me, flipping me off. She limped the entire way and used a branch, a prop of both meanings. But the rest of us enjoyed making it to the roaring water and train cars, abandoned after an accident about a century ago. They are Graffiti Ground Zero now and very climbable for Wesley-like people.