Saturday, August 13, I went on a 14 mile backpacking trail called the Cross Timbers Trail near Lake Texoma in Texas. I started out on this endeavor at 7:47 AM and quickly stumbled upon massive spider webs blocking my path. Some of them I saw before it was too late but others.. I walked straight into. The beautifully constructed webs were no match for my human powered walking capabilities but as for my mentality, I was scarred. I now have an irrational fear of encountering a massive human size web and getting stuck in it.. Just like one of the horror scenes Eight Legged Freaks. I tried my approach at out smarting the unique, eight legged creatures by picking up a stick and waving it around in the air a couple feet in front of me. I looked like I was either blessing nature or conducting an orchestra of bugs but either way the spiders had their evolutionary webs on their side and my efforts were met with a face full of webbing. I quickly developed new dance moves and intellectual grunting techniques to help deter the spiders from coming near me but they were just as confused as me. I continued to follow the trail as I came to realize that that was only the first hour.