This trip started in January when I recieved my first denial letter for hiking inside the canyon. To reserve a spot you must send in a request form 5 months ahead of time, well neddless to say I was turned down. After many phone calls and hours spent on the phone sitting on hold I tried again in February for a June trip, I was also turned down. ...
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The longest loop in Arkansas and one of the msot beautiful trails in the Ozarks. This is a very wet loop, I believe we counted around 42 water crossings, including 9 river crossings. With the recent incidents in the area, extreme caution should be taken regarding weather when planning this hike. We started at the parking area closest to Spirit ...
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Hike is very beautiful. Starts off climbing and it does that the entire first half of the trail. You start in a desert envirnment and actually begin to climb into a forest. I cannot remember all the names of the trees, but the texas Madrone was beautiful with its resignated red wood. You have beautiful views of the surrounding mountains and when ...
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Began around 8AM, paddeled up Eagle Creek into campsite 90. Began hiking the Lost Cove trail. The trail is 2.7 miles long from our start point and in good shape, it did have some muddy points, but for the amount of people hiking it, not bad at all. I believe the trail had 6 creek crossings ( 2 or 3 its hard not to get a little wet). The trail ...
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This trail is one of the "Not so secret" hidden trails that snake throughout the whole of Red River Gorge. I started on Bison Way Trail (210), then connected to Sheltowee Trace(100). At the connector of these two trails you need to take a left, once you go up a little hill you will see an unmarked trail on the right (this is the first of three), I ...
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Drove down to a friend's who lives on the ocean and we took our kayaks out for fishing, exploring, and island hopping. First couple of hours were in Atlantic Beach and we hit the islands that the Shackleford horses live on. I believe the story is the horses are decendants from a Spanish ship that sank, the horses jumped ship and made a home on the ...
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This trail was fantastic and very hard, anything I right here is from memory so I might have some peaks backwards. Started the hike around midnight, and went up Colbert Creek trail. This trail is very tough with alot of bushwacking and loose rock, but still very enjoyable. Decided to nap at the junction where the trail goes up to Windstar ...
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Was a tough drive into the mountain due to a huge storm on the whole eastern seaboard. When we started the hike, the valley had a layer of ice on everything, including the trees and their branches. This made the first couple of miles a little tricky with all of the ice falling, but eventually we actually walked out of the clouds and the weather ...
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Took my nephew on this hike in early summer. Hike started with a move through some beautiful old forest and we saw around 6 waterfalls. Around the midpoint of the hike we took the ladder up to the viewing platform of the BSF of the Cumberland River. Retraced our steps down the step and proceeded into the valley. This is when the fun started, I ...
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Beautiful and clear day in the mountains. We took the counterclockwise way of Knobby Rock Loop and at first it was a pretty steep grade, but once we got to Knobby Rock the fun really began. The rock itself offers some nice views(worse part is you can see the devastation of the coal companies on the surround mountains), and the ability to play ...
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