#52hikes

hike 3 / 2 miles / Jay Cooke

Hike #50 - Charlestown State Park, Charlestown, IN. Trail 2, 0.5 miles I hate the idea of squeezing hikes in at the last minute, but, in service of a goal, sometimes you just have to do what you can. And, at the end of the day, I've never regretted spending any time in the woods, however brief. #52hikechallenge #52hikes2021 #52hikeschallenge #52hikes #autumnforest #fallcolors🍁🍂 #Midwest #Indiana #indianastateparks #southernindiana #hikersofinstagram (at Charlestown State Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXv-AWwLDay/?utm_medium=tumblr

hike 2 / 2 miles / William Munger

hike 1 / 2.85 miles / pine valley loop

hike 4 / 2.6 miles / alex laveau trail

hike 5 / 2.9 miles / alex laveau trail

Hike #30, Harrod's Creek Park, Prospect, KY. Orange, Red, Green and Blue Trails, ~4 miles With softly rippling currents, lush foliage and scenic footbridges, this park is an Impressionist's paradise. Nice and easy first hike back after a month. I'll be doing two a week until I'm caught up, which suits me just fine as Autumn is about to begin. #52hikeschallenge #52hikechallenge #52hikes #hiking #nature #forest #kentucky #louisville #ohiovalley #midwest #creek (at Harrods Creek, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUBSU5fFaIm/?utm_medium=tumblr

Hike #51 - Hoosier National Forest, Hardinsburg, IN. Lick Creek Trail, 5 miles I talk a lot about nature, flora and fauna, thoughts, zen. All things you can find in a forest. But you can also find human history in forests. This rather unassuming trail that follows an old road contains a forgotten remnant of a nation's scars. A badly neglected cemetary is all that remains of a community of further slaves that settled this area of what is today the HNF in the early 1800s. Indiana was a free state, but one can imagine how welcome these people must have felt considering most of their neighbors would have been transplanted Southerners. After a generation or two most of these people sold off their land and moved further north, some even to Canada. The cemetery is off the official trail, but I suspect this is mostly to deter vandalism as the info board shows it on the map and there are signs posted near the tiny rut of a road that leads into it. Even so, there isn't much left to look at today. #52hikes #52hikeschallenge #52hikechallenge #52hikes2021 #indiana #southernindiana #indianahistory #midwesthistory #undergroundrailroad #outdoors #easternwoodlands (at Lick Creek Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXw0YWpF1cm/?utm_medium=tumblr