For this month’s camping trip I’ve come to Lost Maples state park. Near Bandera TX I knew there’d be hills and there indeed are hills. Although the total trail length is only eleven miles I only needed to do ten at most because this is a recovery week. I arrived late afternoon on Friday, checked in with the Ranger, hiked over a mile out to my campsite designated as ‘A’, and set up. It was a chilly night with a low around 33F. On Saturday morning as I have been doing since my last solo I broke camp in the morning and hiked 10 miles following the East, West Loop, and West trails back to my campsite where I again set up . On Sunday I repeated it again except I hiked the trails in reverse. On Sunday night I cowboy camped, a first. On Monday I only needed to do about six miles so I skipped the 2.5 mile West Loop and hiked 3/4 way around the trails back to my car. At about 11 AM I headed home.