auntie | August 17, 2012
3.48 miles ★★★★½ arcadia management area is fast becoming my favorite place to hike. this was another pretty loop. i really like the arcadia trail. the spider webs were horrid, though. they were so bad i took to walking with a stick flailing up and down in front of me like some sort of demented […]
auntie | August 15, 2012
4.31 miles ★★★★ another usual suspects hike. we did more of the duval trail than the last time we went out. we walked the mountainous part today! i forgot how bad some of these hills are. this was also my first time hiking in the rain, although it wasn’t very hard rain… more showery. and […]
auntie | August 14, 2012
3.31 miles ★★★½ wow, first time i ever cut a planned hike short, but this was much more hikey than i thought, and was taking just too much time. also, too, the bugs were ferocious. nice hike, and i’d like to do it when i have more time and there are fewer bugs. it would […]
auntie | August 10, 2012
4.38 miles ★★★★½ found an interesting-looking route on a map of some trails in the very southeast corner of arcadia to try. this was a blast, once i found the correct trail head. the first part of the trail, which was a section of the north-south trail, was quite boulder-y and challenging. after i turned […]
auntie | August 8, 2012
4.0 miles ★★★★ usual suspects hike. the weather was warm and humid, but nothing like this past weekend. we cut it a bit short more for time constraints than any other reason. this is really a pretty property, with great trails which are well-maintained and very clearly marked. i’d like to come back on my […]
auntie | August 6, 2012
4.8 miles ★★★★ unlike saturday, today was a wonderful day for a hike. a line of storms moved through the area last night and the humidity went away. this is a very interesting place, maintained by the army corps of engineers. i was here briefly last april, and have been wanting to come back. well maintained, […]
