Family hike (365:093) — After church, we took all the kids hiking at Busiek, which meant having a bouncy twelve-year-old, a reluctant teenager, and an out and out surly teenager with us.4 pictures
Hiking
Lunch break in the old barn on the Sac River Trail (365:087). Ginger has this habit of distracting me. 2 pictures
March 28, 2011 20:31
Trail shelter, Bluffs Trail, Meramec State Park (365:084) – I started the day with a monster hangover. Which, of course, was totally my own fault. I obviously ate far too much cheese. One-minute read, 4 pictures
March 25, 2011 22:11
Gary crossing Woods Fork at Busiek (365:069) – Time for another hike. We’re getting ready for a longer backpacking trip, so we need to get in as much hiking as we can in preparation for several days of carrying our packs. One-minute read, 6 pictures
March 10, 2011 13:03
Lunch at Busiek (365:066) – Today we went on a re-run of last week’s hike at Busiek. +4
March 7, 2011 19:46
Day hike – with creeks (365:060). 8 pictures
March 1, 2011 13:17
Gary and Ginger on a snowy Sac River Trail (365:036) – No Interwebs today. To keep busy I cleared the drive of last night’s couple of inches of snow, and we decided to enjoy the sunshine, brave the snow cover and go for a short hike on the Sac River Trail. The hike was fine, proving our gear is up to a winter hike, getting to the trail and away again was not so good. One-minute read, 4 pictures
February 5, 2011 20:14
Halfway up the first hill – Busiek State Forest & Wildlife Area (365:27) — Tomorrow I’ll ache.
January 27, 2011 17:16
Stopped for lunch — We stopped for lunch near the end of our hike on the Silver Trail at Busiek State Forest and Wildlife Area. +1
January 27, 2011 12:49
View to the North from the Silver Trail at Busiek — This descent is much steeper than it looks, and it’s very easy to lose your footing on the loose stones that make up the trail.
January 27, 2011 11:52
Ginger approaching halfway up the first big (200-ft.) ascent on the Silver Trail.
January 27, 2011 11:27
Gary and Ginger at Compton Hollow (365:016) – Today we got off to a slow start. 3 pictures
January 16, 2011 13:15
Gary and Ginger on the trail at Valley Water Mill Pond (365:002) – About time for a short hike.
January 2, 2011 16:59
Our First Wilderness Hike. If we were going to give backpacking a go we thought it might be an idea to visit a wilderness first and discover what we were letting ourselves in for. 4 12
December 18, 2010 11:58
A fairly scrawny looking deer, but it didn’t appear to be at all put-out by us watching it for a while.
August 1, 2010 18:11
Prairie Flowers at the Springfield Nature Conservation Center – Despite the horrid heat, today we took Mick on a walk around the nature center. 3 pictures