Hiking

This year we've done more hiking; we walked a little way on Ferne Clyffe's Big Rocky Hollow Trail again, and there were lots of spider webs. Then we did the northern part of the Trail of Tears getting a little lost on one of the loops. It's nice but a little monotonous: either walking along ridges or into ravines. Then over successive weekends we started on sections of what we thought was Giant City's Red Cedar trail, and at one point we each brought a bamboo pole cut from the grove in back of my house, so in addition to the walking sticks we each have, we also had a pole that I thought we could use to clear away the spider webs. Instead they turned out to be great for walking, especially when descending or ascending steep places. After having shared a large part of the trail with horses, who I was surprised to discover are often shy around pedestrians, we realized that we had been taking the horse trail and not the Red Cedar trail, and so we started doing the latter in sections. Last weekend we walked the southern section, back & forth, which was a total of nearly eight miles. There's a little more variety than what we found at the Trail of Tears. Now my wife's legs hurt, so we're resting.