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Have you gone outside this weekend? If so, do you have any cool pictures, or stories, or just want to tell us about your hike or backpacking or whatever? Then please do!
My own contribution here is a mysterious shrine I found off the Prairie Path in Illinois. It's actually the second object in the "mysterious shrines" category I've found wandering trails here! Whether it's actually a shrine is probably debatable, but I don't care.
I had a nice hike on Friday, 19 1/2 miles on the Youngs Creek and Lick Creek trails in the Hoosier National Forest (southern Indiana). The trails are in good condition, the weather was fine, and the bug pressure isn’t too bad yet this year (though the ticks are out in force). The fenced-off rock in the center of the picture here marks the Indiana Initial Point - the survey marker that all property deeds in this state reference.
Maybe I'm nuts, but I can't see a rock in that pic. Too much green. BTW, awesome pic.
It's the scuffed flat spot right in the center of the poison ivy. Apparently nobody in Indiana thinks the Initial Point is worth maintaining.
It does look like someone is maintaining it, at least occasionally.
Wow. 19.5 miles in a single day? That's huge. Cool random picture, too.
I may not be good at much, but I can walk all day every day. I can do back-to-back 20+ mile days with a pack for at least a week...haven't pushed it any further than that. This would probably make some of the long trails very doable, except that I am IRL pretty antisocial...every time I read an account of someone's adventures on the PCT or AT, I get all shuddery over the thought of being forced to interact with other people in groups every day.