Thursday, October 1, 2015

Bear Creek Open Space Preserve

This is an interesting little hiking space near my home.  Permits are necessary and can be obtained here:
openspace.org
The map is almost pointless, but luckily most of the trails circle back to the abandoned school.  Besides you will be able to hear the traffic from Bear Creek Road a 17 and that is more than enough to info to keep from getting lost.
Bring water and there are no bathrooms

This is the eerie walk from the car to the abandoned school.  Not a great hike to do alone after binging watching the last season of the The Walking Dead.

Another creepy building on the far side of the loop around the buildings.  Stared long enough at the windows for movement that I finally thought I saw some...

I thought I could get good pictures if I just went slightly around the dark creepy corner path...
But no, the creepiness is not evident until I go further down the dark path I down want to go down...
Weird empty brick building at the top of a hill

Found this weird concrete wall structure, I'm going tweak it and post it to instagram as me next to a waterfall!
If you squint you can see the waterfall.

I stopped to have a little lunch where I could watch the traffic on 17.  Of course this little bugger started  to follow me
This is me flipping off a vulture that was circling me...he is so certain of my ill health, that he is perched and ready. He is not as far away as he appears...he is at the top of the tree to the right of my finger.  Not today SUCKER!!


Overgrown stairs to nowhere (sounds like a kick-ass Zeppelin cover band)
Burnt out house with a car still in the garage...very zombie apocalypse

overgrown alter...possibly a super fancy water fountain ;)

two buildings connected in the middle with a bell tower...everyone is late for class!

Some of URBY's finest work
Vague area closed signs placed off the path as if to discourage wandering off into the brush, but also  near the paths...I used them as a "choose your own adventure" options!
This was the third flat part of the this hill that I thought was the top...probably the next one (famous last words)
A brow furrowing creepy building next to a creepy path!
This is where the hike started in front of the "Horror Movie" approved abandoned school.