Welcome to my Hiking Blog

Welcome to the homepage for my hiking blog. I grew up in Hamilton, Ohio in a home surrounded on three sides by woods. One of my favorite activities as a child was to go walking through these woods. In fact, my many years of walking along the same paths wore a mini trail system through the forest. As I got older, I spent less time in the woods as school work and other pursuits consumed larger quantities of my time.


As a sophomore in college, I bought a book (from the bargain bin, where it never should have been) called 50 Hikes in Ohio by Ralph Ramey that reignited by interest in the woods. I also discovered a trail system immediately east of campus at Miami University, my now two-time alma mater. With this discovery, my hiking career was born. Ramey’s book interested me so much that I began writing about each new trail I hiked. It is that still-growing collection of writings that is presented here.


While each blog entry is based on my personal experience while hiking the trail, I have tried to make the blog more useful to others by embedding my experience into a more general trail description. I have also included directions to the trailhead, hoping that you might find the same pleasure in hiking many of these trails that I have. Please keep in mind that this is a blog, not a publishable trail guide. Amazon.com is the best source I know for published trail guides. I have written an extensive collection of hiking guide reviews on Amazon; this link leads to a full collection of my Amazon reviews.


I have organized my hiking blog by region. Clicking on a link below will take you to my hiking blog for that region. Once there, you can search the blog using the search box or click on "list of trails" for a table summarizing my hikes for that region. The newer entries have my photos integrated into the trail descriptions; I am working on doing that for all entries. All distances are estimates, and while I make no guarantee that the information contained herein is accurate, the entries and web information were accurate at the time I hiked the trail, to the best of my knowledge. Enjoy the reading!


Alabama/Mississippi/Louisiana

Florida

Georgia

Illinois/Indiana

Kentucky

Michigan/Wisconsin/Minnesota

Northeast USA (Pennsylvania and points northeast)

Northwest USA (west of Minnesota and north of I-80)

Ohio

South Carolina

Southwest USA (west of Louisiana and south of I-80)

Tennessee/North Carolina

Virginia/W. Virginia/Maryland/Delaware

Thursday, December 1, 2011

New South Carolina Hikes

Well, I've finally done it!  I've managed to get some of my hiking trail write-ups off of my hard drive and into a blog.  Are you impressed? (lol) Since I live in South Carolina, my first posting priority will be for trails in the southeast USA.  I have write-ups for over 350 hikes in 32 different states, so the posting of my "old" hikes will take some time.  Please be patient as I work to get this blog up to date.

South Carolina down; Georgia, here I come! :)
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