Category Archives: day hike
A New Year on the Trails
January 22, 2014 In 2013 my hiking mileage of 111.4 miles had plummeted 58% from what it had been 2012, and was down 65% from my peak mileage of 326.3 miles in 2011. I have almost exhausted the supply of … Continue reading
Winter Break 2013 Trip, Day 5: Natural Bridge Caverns
December 30, 2013 On this day we had originally planned to be down at the Gulf Coast in Corpus Christi, but a rainy forecast led me to ask to extend our stay in San Antonio for a couple of days. … Continue reading
Winter Break Trip 2013, Day 2: Pedernales Falls
December 27, 2013 Thirty miles west of downtown Austin the Pedernales River cuts through the hill country, dropping 50 feet over a distance of 3,000 feet, forming a series of cascades across a tilted layer of 300-million-year-old Marble Falls Limestone. … Continue reading
Winter Break Trip 2013, Day 1: The Cliffs of Waco
December 26, 2013 Last week Wendy and I drove south through foggy and snowy fields and past the fog-shrouded skyscrapers in downtown Tulsa to spend Christmas with my folks in Oklahoma City. The next day we drove farther south, intending … Continue reading
New Blazes at Osage Hills
December 14, 2013 I have hiked at Osage Hills State Park over two dozen times since 2009, exploring every trail and steadily mapping them with my iPhone’s MotionX GPS app. The state tourism department asked for a copy of my … Continue reading
Meador Manor 