I returned here the following weekend, but this time I drove to the bottom of the hill to start at the trail entrance by the fountain. There was a small pavilion there were a lady was stopping people and charging them $10 to go on the trail. I asked what the money was for, to which she responded it went to the HOA. And when I asked if the HOA used that money towards maintenance of this public place, she had no idea. Until I knew it wasn’t being used to line someone’s pockets (like most Austin HOA’s do), I wasn’t paying them shit.
Part of this I’d done last week, but I was going to the section
I’d missed which was called the “Little Fern” trail. Hey, I didn’t name it. Because this was perpendicular to the main
trail, it had hardly any elevation change.
For the most part this followed a stream, and there were rock walls to
traverse. It wasn’t as challenging as
the main trail. And I did see bunches of
ferns, I guess the name made sense.
The trail concluded at a third entrance point. I’d seen that earlier in the day, but it was hard to tell what it was. That third entrance was between two houses in the neighborhood, and on a hill, so not a lot of parking in the vicinity. That was a good place locals to come into the trail that way.
Once I was done with that, I did a bit of the main trail in order to fill out my day (and as long as my beverage lasted). But I know that at some point in the future I need to start at the bottom portion and hike the main trail up so it’d all be downhill on the way out.
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