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He said, from the south, the trailhead at the forks.
The forks is the trailhead 22 miles south.
It's a real place.
You can drive there.
The trail from the forks to the tower is marked but faint in stretches, and it crosses two creeks and goes through a burn from a fire in the year 2014.
It's a serious hike.
Most people who do it do it in two days.
I said, you do that in a day?
He said, yeah.
Started at four this morning.
I'll head back down around three.
I looked at his boots.
This is the first thing I noticed, but I didn't know I was noticing it at the time.
It filed itself in the back of my head, and it didn't come out until much later.
His boots were clean.
Not spotless, but clean.
The kind of clean that a pair of boots is after a couple of miles on a dry trail.
Not the kind of clean that a pair of boots is after 22 miles through a burn scar, two creek crossings, and 4,000 feet of elevation.
Those boots should have been filthy.
They were not filthy.