For the 1st hike of the Fall 2024 hiking season, we met at the East Trigg trailhead, on Sat. Oct. 5th, 2024. Our leader for the day was Bill Gilmour. It was sunny And quite warm. We had 21 hikers, including 4-5Read More
For our last hike of the Spring 2024 season, we had something new…a new hike leader, Cody Evans, from Carterville. We met at the Goreville City park, and had a few new hikers, a father & son pair, and a dad with hisRead More
On Saturday April 27th, 8 hikers met with Fred Scott at the Bell Smith Spring parking area. It was damp and cloudy, with a chance of some drizzles, which might have kept the numbers down for the hike. We had 1 newRead More
16 Hikers met leader Bil Gilmour at the east end of Illinois Rt. 147. It was sunny and a bit windy. We then vehicle-pooled North on Cedar Grove church rd, a few miles and turned West on a lane into the forestRead More
On a warm, sunny Saturday morning, 21 hikers gathered at the swimming pool parking lot of Dixon Springs State park. Shawn Gossman was our leader for the hike. We crossed the small wooden bridge and then under the highway bridge and followed theRead More
On Saturday, April 6th, 16 hikers gathered at the East Trigg Trailhead, to be led by Sam Morales. We had several new hikers, including 3 from South Bend, Indiana. There was also a large group, mainly from the Chicago area, that wentRead More
On a warm Saturday morning, March 30th, 21 hikers gathered at Berry Ferry landing parking area, on the East side of the Ohio river, across from Golconda, Illinois. Cathy Jennings was the hike leader for the day. We then carpooled to theRead More
On a windy, somewhat cool Saturday morning, Bob Mulcahy got started early. He, Debbie Townsend, and Sam Morales met at the West end of the Godwin trail to park 2 vehicles to bring hikers back to the start of the hike…the EastRead More
On Saturday morning, March 16th, 16 hikers met with Steve Melville at the Rim Rock parking area. We moved out, some vehicles to the end spot on Black Ridge rd, and then we started from a spot on Thacker Hollow Rd. WeRead More
Saturday morning, March 9th, was cloudy and cool, as hikers met at the Garden of Gods camping parking area. The leader, Chris Drone, led 12 other hikers, with 1 new hiker. We consolidated vehicles, and moved over to the Backpackers parking lot, then headedRead More