Saturday, March 16, 2024 Hike Announcement

The River to River Trail Society announces its 3rd public hike of the 2024 spring hiking season on Mar. 16th. Hiking: Thacker Hollow (Gallatin County). This hike is free and open to the public. This will be a moderate thru hike of 4.75 miles in length, 3.5 hours hiking time. The leader of this hike can be reached at 314-223-3061 for more information. Hikers should meet at 10:00 am at the Rim Rock Recreation Area. This hike is intended for people in good health who have done some hiking. Hiking sticks and boots or sturdy shoes are recommended. Hikers should bring their own water and snacks. No dogs please. Hikers will need to shuttle for this hike. There will be four stream crossings and hikers will need to walk rocks in order to cross streams. Hiker’s shoes and or boots may become wet when crossing streams if it has rained. For a map to the meeting location, Rim Rock Recreation Area, click on this blue link Rim Rock Parking Area and a map will open up, and then click the Directions button and a driving map will be created which will allow you to plan your driving directions to the meeting area. Prior to participating in any hikes, the River to River Trail Society requests that all hikers read the 2023 Trail Society Waiver which can be found on the River to River website at the following link River to River Trail Society Information and then sign off on this waiver prior to the beginning of the hike. A copy of the waiver will be at the Rim Rock Recreation area for your signature.

Saturday March 2, 2024 Hike Summary

Saturday March 2nd , 15 hikers gathered at the East Trigg trailhead, including 5 new hikers. Bill Gilmour, hike leader, welcomed everyone, introductions were made, then we loaded into vehicles and moved about 2 miles North, to head into the forest. We first came to the Top of “Reunion” rock.  It was a cloudy day, but there was a nice view of the bare trees to the South. We then found Little Cedar Falls. That area is less than 1 mile East of Camp Ondessonk property. It was lightly flowing. We moved along a nice bluff wall, beside a creek that did have some water in it, over to Crevice Falls. Great stair-stepped rocks down to the base.  We ate lunch and took the group picture here. A very interesting & unique area was the stream bed just adjacent to Crevice Falls. It had a small amount of flowing water along the edge, but the main part was just plain flat, barren rock. We followed some small streams that were very easily crossed, then found “7 trees”, several were joined together at their base. Then we started heading back, and along the way, we were at the base of ReUnion rock, then found the rock where the name of “Nathan Lawrence, 1923” was inscribed, followed a small bluffline, found a spot, climbed out and back to the vehicles. We covered just over 5 miles. 

I am sorry for this late write-up. It just kept slipping my mind all week long 

The next hike will be led by Chris Drone, meeting at the lower parking lot of Garden of Gods at 10 am on Saturday, March 9th.