Warning: Long Post. I just want to say a Huuuuge “Thank YOU”, to All the hike leaders this spring..Vicki Mosberger Ferguson & Gillum Ferguson, Bob Mulcahy, Steve Ryder, Steven Mitchell, Marcus Owens, David Cooper, Jim Todd, Bill Gilmour, Eric Johnson, Steve Gariepy,Read More
Well, we finished up the Spring 2018 hiking season in Fine Style. Marcus Owens & Steven Mitchell led 15 other hikers, divided into 2 groups, over trails in the Lusk Creek Wilderness. The original route had to be ‘scrapped’ and revised dueRead More
I Wonder….Who Wasn’t ‘Out” today?? We had 26 hikers today, including a few new ones.that Bob Mulcahy led. We met at the Millstone Bluff parking lot, then loaded up into trucks, and moved over to just below Millstone lake…whereupon we walked acrossRead More
WOW!! YOU did it Again!!! (I Know..it isn’t b/c of me…😉….) But we had 29 hikers today. Big crowd for a West side hike. The Hardees’ parking lot was Packed until we left..Thank You to Don Monty & Anne Gaylord for leadingRead More
Rain quit, right exactly when we asked it to..13 showed up to hike..&we did., all nice & muddy, crossed Many streams, trails were even streams. Jim Todd led us today. Yeah, the ‘walk/slog” out…was tiring, but, all went well today in PantherRead More
What Snow??…Where?? When??? David Cooper led a Great hike today…a total of 20 met at the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge office..and we moved 8 miles down the road to the Turkey Trail & Rocky Bluff Trail … Skies cleared, and, onceRead More
On Saturday’s hike from Giant City SP to the ghost town of Progress on Rocky Comfort Road we had 23 hikers. At least 3-4 of the hikers to were new to the R2R Trail Society hikes. Hike leader Steve Gariepy did anRead More
After last weeks huge crowd on a sunny day, today’s hike in the Cedar Creek area started out with 6 hikers and ended with 5 after Eric Johnson only did half of it. It stopped raining about 10 minutes before we startedRead More
What.A.Crowd!!! Wowzer!!! 38 hikers today, on a Warm humid day. They just kept rollin’ in to go with us..Bill Gilmour did a Heckuva job as hike leader. ..saw some Great Big Mounds…of sandstone..Had some people returning, some new hikers…Pickups Were Loaded…I amRead More
We had 26 hikers on todays’ initial Spring ’18 hike. I had been in the area, but, Not down that particular road…(took it ‘out” right by Double M Campground.. Saw some interesting stuff, crossed a few streams, met some horse riders, WeRead More