I am a National Park Service Volunteer

This week, quite by surprise, I found out that I have been recognized by the National Park Service as a 100 hour volunteer. They sent me a certificate of appreciation (suitable for framing), an National Park Service Volunteer lapel pin (very high quality craftsmanship), and a North Country National Scenic Trail 100 Hours [...]

Buckeye Trail, Scioto Trail Section Supervisor

There is a new Buckeye Trail, Scioto Trail Section Supervisor.
Me.
I am exited about the opportunity. I figured that I would be closer to retirement before I stepped up my involvement with the BTA, but circumstances beyond anyone’s control changed my mind.
The previous section supervisor was injured and will be out of commission for an [...]

Wild America in my backyard

There are days that make me glad I am once again living in rural southern Ohio. Singular events can put the weeks of moaning and complaining about rain and mud completely out of my mind.
For those that don’t know, my yard is considered a wetland. This spring has thankfully been a wet one, [...]

Bone tired and loving it

I spent the weekend building more hiking trail for the Buckeye Trail. It is now Tuesday morning and I can still feel a few aches in muscles that I did not use over the winter. Yesterday, I was bone tired. This is how I describe the feeling of being completely tired physically. [...]

Adams Lake State Park

Doris has taken some amazing nature pictures, and wanted to take more. She suggested that we head out to a state park she had remembered seeing last year when we went to West Union. We were in different vehicles and I did not notice it at all.
I am so glad she did. [...]

Scratch Thing #60

60. Power wash back of house/return power washer
If there is a lesson to be learned by the readers of this blog, it is be cautious what you lend me. It may be a while before I return it.
I borrowed a power washer from a good friend over a year [...]

2.96MPH

While walking this morning I got to wondering how long, in actual walking time, it would take to reach 1001 miles. Well, I have kept track of many of my start and stop times when hiking, and I know the distances, so it was easy to calculate. 338.1756 hours, approximately. That [...]

Stickseed, Stuck On Me …

Yesterday afternoon I headed out to do some simple maintenance on my adopted section of the Buckeye Trail. Simple. HA!!
In the past month the weeds took over a section of the trail. I spent the better part of two hours just knocking down ragweed, poke, blackberry and stickseed plants just to make [...]

Procrastination Cessation …

Hello. I am a procrastinator. I sometimes can keep my head down and get things done, but over the last year I have really let a lot of things slip. I am going to rectify that.
I stumbled across an interesting meme here on the internet. It is called “101 Things to [...]

Damage to the Trail

Monday afternoon I took a three mile hike to work out some work stress. I have found that sometimes my clearest thinking comes when my heart rate falls after a hike up a steep hill. Ohio State Parks have a lot of these steep hills. For some reason the trails in the [...]