Old Keenan Road, Brasher State Forest, Part 2

I'd gotten my car mired in a deep mud hole on the logging road called Old Keenan Road on the state map (see also Part 1, posted yesterday). I'd already contacted AAA and kept walking back toward the camping and picnic area even though I knew no one was there:

We kept walking, and by this time the dogs had also begun to slow down:

There is one small private property along the road, but no one was home:

We finally arrived at the camping area, and I still had enough energy to call the dogs into the forest to explore the stream from the overflow of the CCC reservoir:

It was cool and beautiful back there, with a new beaver dam under construction:

White Pines dominate this forest and much of the walking was free from brush:

We continued on along the stream, headed for the picnic area and reservoir:

When we got to a place with easy water access, Daphne went in to cool herself off:

Then Fergus and Clover joined her:

I had walked for several miles with my painful ankles and new leg braces, all the way to the camping area because the guy at AAA said that's where I'd meet the tow truck. But when I talked on the phone to the local operator, I explained that I was old, crippled and with five muddy dogs, so he might prefer me to head back to my car. He agreed, so I started walking again, this time back to where my car was stuck:


The tow truck arrived at my mired car before I did, but not by much, and my car was out of the mud by the time I got there. I made it a point to turn around on that narrow dirt road so I wouldn't have to back through any more mud holes. That, after all, is how I got stuck in the first place. But I had been rescued and was on my way back to civilization and decent roads: