New notice boards and a registration point at Camp Five Pond. And a warning about not taking maps or a GPS. +1
2024
Ready to get on the trail — I’m planning on spending four days hiking the Whites Creek Trail. This time I’m starting with the South Loop (I don’t know why they call it a loop it is not. But hey!).
January 30, 2024 13:10
At the Camp Five Pond Trailhead — It’s good to be back. It might be a challenging trip, it’s very early in the season so the trail is going to be difficult to follow. I’m hiking the trail backwards — clockwise, leaving the eight-mile, possibly water-less, section for the last two days.
January 30, 2024 13:02
A break in the weather means I’m off on a four-day hike of the Whites Creek Trail, South and North Loops at Irish Wilderness. Just for a change I thought I’d take out my old 60/70-liter Deuter backpack for a trip. Then I changed my mind. 2
January 30, 2024 9:37
Journal: Three days solo backpacking in Hercules Glades Wilderness, January 2024 — I’m off out for three days, blowing away the cobwebs and walking off some holiday season excesses. Journal: 4 10
January 4, 2024 18:00
At the Pole (Pete) Hollow Trail Junction. 39°F and feeling a bit chilly with a slight head wind. Two nights, three days, and a modest 13 miles. That will do for my first run out of 2024. Time to go home and trim my beard. It has done its job! +1
January 4, 2024 14:58
Day Three. Tucked up in my hammock. Deep Hollow, January 2024.
January 4, 2024 8:38
Heating water for dinner — Using my Firebox Nano wood stove.
January 3, 2024 16:52
Hammock sunset — Camped above ‘Deep Hollow’ January 2024.
January 3, 2024 16:20
Just to prove that I was there.
January 3, 2024 14:00
View to the south from the slopes of Lower Pilot Knob – Hercules Glades Wilderness.
January 3, 2024 13:47
Camped on the side of ‘Twin Falls Hollow’ The start of Day Two of my trip.
January 3, 2024 7:57
Day One. Another year, same trail cairn — I’m off out for three days, blowing away the cobwebs and walking off some holiday season excesses.