Fourth of July

Mount Shasta's biggest weekend is the fourth of July. About four thousand people come to run the Mount Shasta 5 mile walk/run. www.mtshastarunners.com. It's a &$%^$ zoo. Guess who gets to man the ER the night of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th.....Yeah, you're RIGHT!! Lucky me....
To get my mind right, I did a new loop in Castle Crags that I call Big Bob. It is probably 7 miles of climbing and then descending, with the highest part looking across the valley to the crags. http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=454 It's spectacular. No bears today, just one little woodpecker.
Now, it's off to my little nap before chaos strikes.