Walking around the (National) Mall

Visiting the in-laws for Christmas so I spent a cold day walking around the National Mall with Corinne.  We started at the Smithsonian Castle, wandered down to the Lincoln Memorial, around the Tidal Basin to the Jefferson Memorial, then back to the Castle.

It was cold and windy, but we kept up a brisk pace.  Not much elevation change, unless you count the stairs on the Lincoln Memorial.

Unwrapped some Christmas presents last night from the best candidate to be a future son-in-law.  Now I have another Backpacking book to use as info, The Backpacker's Field Manual by Rick Curtis.  I opened it to a random page and read the start of the Bear Precautions section.  First bullet "Avoid contact with bears."  Lets hope the advice improves from here.