Category: Hiking
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2021 Week 52 – Looks Like We Made It!
It’s the final Sunday of 2021 & it’s time for another Year in Review! I wanted to bring the blog back to life this year and post at least once a week. I missed a few weeks throughout the year, but overall I’m pleased with how I was able to keep things active. Along the…
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2021 Week 31 – Bug Off
The last 4 posts were a recap of my week-long trip to OH, PA & NY to visit the Allegheny National Forest. With the daily rain, and summer temps, the mosquitos were out and looking for blood but I brought a solution to that… After seeing ads and reviews over the past year I decided…
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2021 Week 20 – Mini Road Trip Part 2
Picking up where we left off last week. After I finished checking out Spring Mill state park I headed to another item on my travel list, Hemlock Cliffs. Located on National Forest Rd, in English Indiana, Hemlock Cliffs is a little out of the way and on this Friday afternoon the parking lot was pretty…
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2021 Week 19 – Mini Road Trip Part 1
I took the day off last Friday & headed down to Southern Indiana for some sightseeing, Disc Golf, and camping. With the knowledge that State Rt 37 was closed in Martinsville I decided to take State Rt 39 that runs parallel to the west. I also wanted to check out the Goethe Link Observatory along…
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Trip Report – Hoosier National Forrest
I’ve been planning an overnight getaway to the Hoosier National Forrest (HNF) for a while now. I prefer weeknight trips to avoid the rush of weekend warriors that fill the campsites throughout the US. It was funny (and totally coincidental) to see a writeup in the latest Indianapolis Monthly this month. Even more so…
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Trip Report – Red River Gorge (Part-3)
Part-2 can be found here Welcome back!This is the 3rd and final part of the Red River Gorget Trip Report. Lot’s of pictures and a few videos in this one. Enjoy! Waking up earlyIn order to beat the heat of the day I was up at the crack of dawn and out the door by…
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Trip Report – Red River Gorge (Part-2)
Part-1 can be found here Driving to Red River GorgeAfter an awesome lunch at the Stave I continued my journey Southeast towards Red River Gorge (RRG). It was an uneventful trip with the usual Kentucky countryside of rolling hills and horse farms. Everything was green this time of year and the roads were light with…
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Trip Report – Red River Gorge (Part-1)
Trip IntroThis is going to be a multi-part post over the next few weeks. I took a ton of photos and want to share some of them here as well as detail the trip as best as I can. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your comments and feedback. I decided to…
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Trip Report – Turkey Run State Park
I took an opportunity towards the end of May to take a day off work and go exploring at Turkey Run State Park. It had been years since I last visited and I really didn’t remember it very well. The weather was just about perfect and I was surprised how close the park actually was…