On a cloudy, overcast sky Saturday morning, 17 hikers gathered at the end of Rebman lane, to be led by Melanie Kasson on a hike involving several trails, including parts of the River to River trail, in the South part of FerneRead More
22 hikers gathered on a warm Saturday, October 18th, to be led down the Wild Turkey trail in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife refuge and other trails by Cathy Jennings, todays’ hike leader. We had 1 new hiker from the Carbondale areaRead More
On a sunny Saturday October 11th, we opened up the Fall 2025 hiking season. Sam Morales was our leader today, and he led 16 other hikers, including 2 new hikers, a husband/wife pair from Collinsville, Illinois. We met at Zion church, andRead More
On a cloudy Saturday, May 3rd, 7 hikers gathered at a spot in Alexander county that most of us had never before been to. It was Trail 220. There was a possibility of rain, so, many had stuffed into their backpacks someRead More
On Saturday, April 26th, 14 hikers gathered at the main waterfall parking lot at Ferne Clyffe State park, just south of Goreville. Cathy Jennings was our leader for this hike. We had 1 new hiker, the rest of the hikers had allRead More
On Saturday April 19th, hikers met at the Stoneface parking lot in Mountain township of Saline county. This hike was adjusted because of flood waters over a road. This hike was originally intended to be the Crest trail hike from the Tecumseh statue atRead More
This morning, 22 hikers, with a few arriving late, because of flooded roads, gathered at the North end of Snake road, in Union county, to be led by Shawn Gossman. We took the group picture 1st thing, because some hikers would have a differentRead More
Well, this weeks’ hike was, uhhh, “interesting”, to say the least. First, it was raining, during all of it and Second, several roads to the meeting point were flooded. Some went home, others “found” their way to the meeting point. Then, theRead More
On a cloudy Saturday morning, March 29th, 17 hikers, with leader Chris Drone, left the Shawnee Mart parking lot and went to the west edge of Eddyville, to take off on their weekly hike. There were no new hikers for this particularRead More
It was cloudy this morning and had rained just a few hours before Marcus Owens led 21 other hikers South down the upper trail at Jackson Falls. The first stop was the carving into the rock of the Civil war soldier, thenRead More