A walk in the woods.

Last weekend, Sujit and I decided to go for a trek and finally chose the Castle Rock state Park, with it's many trails giving it the edge over the others. After a good drive through a winding road, with the occasional Aprilia or Ducati screaming past us, we arrived at our destination - Castle Rock State Park...it was the parking lot, to be exact!Then we geared up - armed with some juice and water bottles to keep us fresh - and selected the trail on our map. The trail took us through the forests with it's big trees and the small creeks, and then the huge rock -a.k.a Castle Rock - loomed large and reached high into the sky. I still don't know why the call it the "castle rock", because I can't seem to find any resemblance to a castle! Anyway, keeping all that aside, we had a good time exploring the rock, which was full of small caves, and then started on another trail which was supposed to lead us to the Castle rock falls. This took us again through some wonderful forest,complete with huge trees uprooted due to the storms. The falls was nothing more than a small creek falling to the forest floor over a cliff. Though the falls was not exactly a huge waterfall, the view from the embankment was quite impressive.

The next trail on our map was the one which led to Goat Rock, and after seeing Castle Rock, I did not expect it to look like a goat...Not even close to it. Goat Rock was situated higher than the others so it needed a little more tougher trek into the woods and across the mountains. At one point in the trail, there was this big boulder right on the trail and after climbing we had to carefully move over to the other side, and a false step could be disastrous! To add to it, there were supposed to be mountain lions, though unfortunately (fortunately??!) we did not come cross any. Goat Rock was much more impressive than the Castle Rock, mainly due to the fact that the view from it was simply breathtaking. If the trees were visible from Castle Rock, the tree tops were visible from Goat Rock! The entire valley was in front of us, with all it's green trees and rocky mountains here and there. The spectacular view presented to us, was outta this world! After some quiet moments here at Goat Rock, we started our trek back to the parking lot, as we had to return before the gate closed.

The Trek made us a bit tired, but refreshing in a way as well. And soon, it was time to hit the sack after a good dinner!