Category Archives: travel
Big Hill Lake & Tolen Creek
I spent most of January 2012 fighting sinusitis, unable to take advantage of unseasonably warm weather for day hikes. Finally, four weeks after my previous day hike on New Year’s Eve, I had recovered sufficiently to contemplate hiking on the … Continue reading
Straddling the Lake of the Ozarks State Park
I’ll wrap up 2011 with a lengthy post about four trails I hiked at Lake of the Ozarks on the last day of the year. Coping with Hotel Living Earplugs are my strategy for some hotels. The new one I … Continue reading
Windy Walks in the Ozarks
The forecast called for unseasonably mild weather for the final two days of 2011, so I decided to try again for day hikes at Lake of the Ozarks. I tried to do so last May but rain changed my plans. The … Continue reading
Ison’s Folly and the Stairway to the Sky
I paid the price for too many colas at yesterday’s supper: a sleepless night in my room at Quartz Mountain. I finally drifted off and did not get up until 8:15 a.m. A cold shower woke me up, but not … Continue reading
Granite Hills Grandeur
Over Thanksgiving I’d hoped to hike the Granite Hills trails at Great Plains State Park in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma, but was stymied by weather. The beautiful Wichitas are too far a drive for a day hike out … Continue reading
Meador Manor 