There are times when I’m so happy to be hiking through along a forest trail that I feel I’m stopping about every few steps to shoot a photo; and then there’s the time last May when I did actually manage to document nearly every step I took around the back of the Robert Louis Stevenson Tree. As I was doing this I felt a little silly, but there was just something irresistible to me about the ancient tree and the curving, shaded path between fence and rustic stone wall. And since I’m not a person who creates narrated “reels” for Tiktok or Instagram, this sequence of images is my way of trying to provide sort of a you-are-there effect. So bear with me and come along as we take the very short trip along the side trail that loops behind the Robert Louis Stevenson Tree at Napa County’s Petrified Forest.

Looking back to the main trail