Resuming this blog 

 A pandemic and then a dislocated shoulder had gone a long way toward cooling my interest in this hiking blog, but now I'm back at it, because I'm hiking again, and shooting photos -- and it's the photos that give this blog life, so now there will be more again. 

 My right arm is sufficient healed for me to hike and camp, although I still need to be cautious. My arm is not healed enough to encourage another fall. While I have been hiking, the hikes of the near future will be about challenge and conditioning, and my arm is cautously up to the task. 

 Today's hike mainly involve the Nook Trail on Tiger Mountain from Tradition Plateau to the caves where it intersects with the Talus Rock trail.

View from a foot bridge over a creek gulch.

Path like the Wizard of Oz's yellow brick road.

More of the path.

A cave at the junction of Nook and Talus Rock trails.

The Talus Rock Trail squeezed between boulders.

Shelf fungus on a downed tree.

Mushrooms on a dead tree over the trail.

The route from parking lot to caves.

Summary: 2.6 mile hike and 600+ foot elevation gain.ADDENDUM:Oct 29, returned, took Tiger 3 past 1.1 mile marker: 18#, 2.8 miles, 700+ elevation gain.Summary to date: 5.4 miles, 1,300-foot elevation gain.