there's some beach roses growing here... they look a little worse for wear, but looking at their rosehips brings back fond memories of pretending to like the texture of the pith in your mouth as a child. you and your friends would spend hours collecting and eating 'natural edibles' like fiddleheads, wintergreen, birch twigs, and rosehips like these. they seem smaller than you remember, but you suppose that's how most things are now.

you spend a little while reminiscing before returning to the trail.