The following article is a copy and its translated version of a Instagram/Facebook post that I wrote during my bike trip in Minnesota between Augst 31st. and September 3rd.– a short travel for visiting my former major professor.
I made it to the Smoky Hills State Forest, where I was supposed to do dispersed camping tonight, early enough so I can afford to spend time to walk into woods in search of a small clearing where I could pitch my tent. Stepping into an animal trail and wandering in a bushy forest for quite a while, I couldn’t even spot a tiny patch of campable land, ending up in vain. My modest ambition for dispersed camping in the Minnesota wilderness thus ended.
スモーキー・ヒルズ州立森林に到着。今夜はここで「分散キャンプ」するつもりだった。まだ時間が十分早かったので、テントを立てられそうな小さい空き地を見つけようと木立の中に入った。獣道に踏み込んでかなりの時間、低木の生い茂る森を彷徨ったが、キャンプできそうな場所はひとかけらも見つからず、徒労に終わった。かくして、ミネソタの原生林で分散キャンプをという僕のささやかな野望は潰えたのだった。