Category Archives: travel
Bushwhacking in Charon’s Garden
The forecast for Saturday, February 26 was irresistible: low 70s and partly cloudy in southwestern Oklahoma. After the heavy snowstorms of January and February, I’d managed to start mapping trail lengths in Osage Hills, but I wanted to go on … Continue reading
Queen Wilhelmina
At the tail end of January the weekend forecast said highs would reach the 70s in western Arkansas, so I made plans for a lengthy day hike. The target would be Queen Wilhelmina State Park just across the Arkansas border … Continue reading
Back on the Trails in Tulsa
I did not hike for the first three weeks of 2011, instead fighting a sinus infection which I managed to enhance with a rash and hives via an allergic reaction to penicillin. That was a reminder of childhood which I … Continue reading
Trying Trails
Blogger Harriet Gordon sent me a link to The 20 Hiking Trails Every American Hiker Must Try and I’m happily passing it on to you. Too bad none of these are near Oklahoma! The only one I’ve been on in … Continue reading
Passing the 300 Mile Mark for 2010
As I finished my post yesterday about my day hike with Betty Henderson at Fall River Lake, I noticed that, by the count on my spreadsheet, I was only 6.1 miles shy of 300 miles of day hikes in 2010. … Continue reading
Meador Manor 