Category Archives: photos
Bushwhacks Along the Bugle Trail
On a cool Sunday afternoon in May with partly cloudy skies I set out to hike once again the Bugle Trail at Osage Hills State Park. I parked by the park swimming pool and soon dove down off trail to … Continue reading
A Long Walk in the Woods
Until this weekend my day hike records show the longest hikes had been 13 miles at both Eagle Creek in Oregon and Queen Wilhelmina in Arkansas and 14.5 miles on the Elk River Trail up in Kansas. On Saturday, May … Continue reading
A Visit to Lake McMurtry
It was a sunny spring Saturday and, having been cooped up the previous weekend with rain and a facility planning project, I was looking for a new and dry place to hike. Rain chances in the area were 20% or … Continue reading
Around the Rim of Red Rock Canyon
April 18, 2011 Driving west from Oklahoma City on I-40, you leave the Cross Timbers behind and enter the rolling great plains. The scenery is little but grass and sky, yet between Hinton and Binger there are gashes in the … Continue reading
Cross Timbers
I’ve lived all my life amidst the Cross Timbers, the boundary between the eastern forests and the treeless Great Plains. The coarse and sandy soil has limited nutrients and is covered in post oak and blackjack oak trees. Before modern … Continue reading
Meador Manor 