tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68517434796796132462024-02-19T07:27:46.751-08:00Hike Starved RockHike with Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15402502627448464009noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851743479679613246.post-37849259932294766772020-03-12T13:09:00.001-07:002020-03-12T13:09:18.154-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">None of today's 46 SR Walkers were tested so none were positive. We walked out to St. Louis & Aurora Canyons without seeing any covid-19. Not sure about next week.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">We left the Lodge without attaching traction as we were expecting mud not ice.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail view of the upper Aurora Canyon waterfall.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Climbing the rim trail above Aurora Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view down the Sac Canyon waterfall to water splashing over a ledge thirty feet below before falling another thirty-five feet to the creek on the canyon floor.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our footwear determines whether we walk through the mud or around it.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trekking poles take 50% of the weight off your knees. Most don't walk without them.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some trees appear to be prepping for St. Patrick's Day.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking down the trail stairs beside "yellow rock".</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">My favotite piece of the Bluff Trail winds along the narrowest part of the bluff.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">St. Louis Canyon off the left side of the trail, the Illinois River Valley off the right.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view from the Bluff Trail down to the Walkers on the canyon trail.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A turkey tail "fun guy" party on a trailside log.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view up St. Louis Creek to the Walkers massed below the canyon headwall.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">St. Louis Canyon always dwarfs its visitors...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">...and doesn't miss the dwarves when they are gone.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers headed back down canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view of the white St. Peter sand moving down the bottom of St. Louis Creek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A bluff Trail view of some Walker "ants" on the floor of Aurora Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view up Aurora Creek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>We will end our first pandemic hike with a quote from Sarah Louise Arnold,</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i> "Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit."</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Forty five Starved Rock Walkers (0 dogs) left the Lodge lobby and drove to Buffalo Rock State Park to hike the Effigy Tumuli and River Trails there. A sunny, windy March day for a walk!</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bison Pebbles came out to see us off.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tailgates open and gearing up for the hike.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">We took the accessible trail (sidewalk) from the parking lot to the first overlook platform. In summer this is one of the nicest wheelchair walks in the county.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Effigy Tumuli Trail winds through five different effigies constructed from old strip mine piles that used to be here.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Edna agreed to lead most of the group to the summit of the catfish.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is the summit team descending the head of the catfish.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is truly one of the best strip mine reclamations you will ever see.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving the frog effigy I noticed one walker thought today is the perfect day to wear his bison hat!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of us also chose to summit the snake effigy.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Signs seen from atop the snake encouraged us to turn around so we did.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The River Trail funnels walkers into single file along the edge of Buffalo Rock. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A downriver view from the overlook at the wind driven rollers and whitecaps moving up river.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Only the geologist was impressed by the limestone stairs at the end of the River Trail.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The right half of the "wedding oak" in the Park's picnic area went down in the 28 February 2017 tornado. The left half is still doing fine. No, you cannot call it the "divorce oak"!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Cocoa, right, joined Pebbles to watch us leave.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>About thirty Starved Rock Walkers drove to Matthiessen State Park and walked (counterclockwise) around the Lake. A cold winter's day with occasional spills of sunshine.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Down the stairs to the canyon rim.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail view across the canyon to the stairs into the upper dells. Summer vegetation does not allow such views.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nearly everyone attached their traction for this walk.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">There are a few places where the rim trail is sliding into the canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">FYI - This nylon rope will not slow your 85-foot bounce to the canyon floor.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers trudging and talking along the rim trail.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> A trail view up a tributary creek. No ice falls here!</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view along the half-mile accessible sidewalk to the Lake bridge.</span></b> </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Across the bridge is the accessible ramp up to the Lake Shelter parking lot.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail view across the frozen Lake to Lake Shelter, the lower level of which was a boat house when the Lake was eight feet higher.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the summer this trail is closed in and under the green canopy tunnel. You can see much further in the winter.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were no large splashes at our hardest stream crossing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unlike SRSP, the Matthiessen Lake trail is for multiple users. We saw none of these.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">None of these either!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was apparent that three large "dogs" broke trail for us this morning.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now we know where we were and where we are going.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trail skirts the Deer Park Golf Course. This is not a missing cart!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A tral view up into the Lake Shelter.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers climbing from the Lake Trail up to the bridge.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nobody doesn't like the Lake Matthiessen Bridge!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The required acraphobic view over the bridge rail on the water falling 45-feet down the lake dam.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A down canyon view from the Lake Bridge NOT screened by summer vegetation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Twenty Starved Rock Walkers (0 dogs) stepped into a Winter Wonderland by taking the West Bluff Trail out to St. Louis Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Stargazer sculpture next to the Lodge needed no sunscreen today.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving the Lodge you wonder, it's 23F, the wind is blowing, what am I doing!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view of the Park road that steeply climbs the South Bluff, freshly salted and open to traffic.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A view down the trail stairs to the Aurora Creek bridge.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail view of the Sac Creek bridge.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view down the Sac Canyon waterfall to the canyon floor.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This deer walked the entire West Bluff Trail a few hours before we did.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The SR Walkers, all properly tractioned, on the West Bluff Trail boardwalk.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The boardwalk sits on the rim of the South Bluff.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail staircase descending...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">… next to the "watchtower" outcrop.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trail is now sucking us into St. Louis Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last night's winter storm left just under two inches of snow in the Park.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 83-foot St. Louis Canyon waterfall if the tallest fall in the Park.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most walkers have many pics of the waterfall....</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meltwater icicles on the east wall.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge of sand ripples travelling down the bottom of St. Louis Creek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walking in a Winter Wonderland!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers climbing out of the canyon on the Bluff Trail.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Various traction microspike prints on the bluff boardwalk. The reason why SR Walkers seldom fall!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Today's walk calls to mind a favorite quote from Sir Ranulph Fiennes,</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nearly thirty Starved Rock Walkers trekked through the fresh and falling snow to see Council Overhang, and Ottawa, Kaskaskia, and Illinois Canyons. A nice winter walk in the Park.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of this can be seen in a less than two mile walk at the east side of the Park.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">25F and snowing as we gathered in the Council Overhang parking lot.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The boot" on the wall near the overhang is a snow boot today!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers heading up into the overhang.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stand against the back wall and Council Overhang will frame your picture for you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was always a bad place to tell students that the St. Peter Sandstone is 98.5% WHITE silica sand. Organic derived iron stains the surface of the rock everywhere in the Park.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view from the overhang down to the confluence of Ottawa and Kaskaskia Creeks.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">You have to cross Ottawa Creek four times to get into the back of the canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ice climbers will not like this view of the headwall of Ottawa Canyon. No ice column here!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This new rockfall from the headwall shows that the sandstones is indeed white!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fresh rockfall scar on the Ottawa Canyon headwall.</span></b></div>
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<b> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A behind the waterfall view of the Walkers Club giving size scale to the west wall of Ottawa Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving Ottawa Canyon and headed towards Kaskaskia Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back across Ottawa Creek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Icicles on the west wall of Kaskaskia Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Kaskaskia Canyon waterfall.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I attached my traction spikes to my swamp walker boots. The perfect combination for today's walk!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view down Kaskaskia Creek through the mouth of the canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ice on the east wall of Kaskaskia Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail view up Kaskaskia Creek.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers on their way to Illinois Canyon.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kaskaskia Creek is one of the few canyon creeks you can walk next to instead of along its bottom.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Still snowing as we approach the parking lot.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Let's end this winter walk with a quote from Takayuki Ikkaku;</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>"When there is snow on the ground, I like to pretend I am walking on clouds."</i></span></b></div>
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<br />Hike with Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12701147881243879372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851743479679613246.post-76906207485495941852020-01-30T13:32:00.002-08:002020-01-30T13:32:57.947-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thirty-five SR Walkers met in the Lodge lobby today. Thirty chose to follow the schedule and hike the trailess White Oaks Preserve on the west side of the Park. Five of us elected to stay on the trail and headed out to Eagle Cliff and Wildcat Canyon to see if we could find the sun. For the third consecutive week the sun did not make an appearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the trailhead on the path was hard, bumpy ice. Don't walk here without attaching traction to your boots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A trail bridge view up French Creek. The tracks show a lot of animal activity this past week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look what we saw roosting above the dam ten yards off the boardwalk!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Army Corps brought in some help to reposition the new lock gates to make them more current friendly. These gates for the Marseilles and Starved Rock lock chambers will be installed this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, all boardwalks and stairs are covered with up to one inch of uneven ice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The eagle was not disturbed by our first walk by, but this time he watched us carefully as we passed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are lots of meltwater ice beards in the Park. These are in Pontiac Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ice on the headwall trail around the rim of Pontiac Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Bluff Trail view of the River Trail bridge over Pontiac Creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The icy boardwalk approaching Wildcat Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A west rim view of the disappearing icicle on the east wall of Wildcat Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The upper Wildcat fall has lost its enclosing ice column.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">It looks like the 16-year-old aluminum snow steps on the Wildcat rim boardwalk will be replaced with galvanized steel as they fail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Water has sliced through both the icicle and the ice mound in Wildcat Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ice on Wildcat Creek will not support anyone trying to cross the canyon floor this weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail view of the boardwalk around the rim of Wildcat Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A well striated (ice scratched) basaltic glacial erratic in its preferred habitat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very gneiss glacial erratic next to the Lodge parking lot. Geology humor - yeah, I know!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thirty Starved Rock Walkers (+1 dog) climbed the Rock, visited French Canyon, and slid out to Wildcat Canyon and back on a "snow globe" morning in the Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers leaving the Lodge...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">...and descending the 150 metal steps towards the Rock.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0vH9f9jtXUnNp_QgPU2aiMZRPSlBVczFpgfLezv5sb3Kt47_BQ02cvasWB-C6i5U1tzxjz8ya-Mufm2GkoAqVA_wpeMun6RFGS0P9WFfM1lu_tauUKcn5pUyv_YSoE_4JyDtzWpZ8ak/s1600/1+23+20+%25285%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1143" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_0vH9f9jtXUnNp_QgPU2aiMZRPSlBVczFpgfLezv5sb3Kt47_BQ02cvasWB-C6i5U1tzxjz8ya-Mufm2GkoAqVA_wpeMun6RFGS0P9WFfM1lu_tauUKcn5pUyv_YSoE_4JyDtzWpZ8ak/s640/1+23+20+%25285%2529.JPG" width="456" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trail ramps two-thirds of the way up the Rock. Yes, every hiker wore traction strapped to the bottom of their boots. The poles make us hard to tip tripods!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then up the 66 steps to the top</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">It looks like a squirrel beat us up here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The boardwalk around the top was snow covered, frozen, bumpy slush. Hard on the ankles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers entering French Canyon. Not all of us chose to climb the frozen entrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view of meltwater icicles high on the west wall of French Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view up French Creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the boardwalk bound for Eagle Cliff. You can see one of Ron's attached microspike boot bands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Lovers Leap view of geese over Starved Rock.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A boardwalk turnout view of the SR Lodge through a white pine window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walkers on the headwall trail around Pontiac Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last Bluff Trail dip before Wildcat Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Wildcat Canyon waterfall is close to forming a complete ice column.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">While sitting in the hotel cafe, I watched this woman slide down the hill out front THREE times with her crutches tucked into the sled. Her daughter carried the sled back up each time. Both were laughing loudly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">About thirty Starved Rock Walkers (no dogs because, too cold for them) drove to the Hennepin Canyon parking lot and hiked the East Bluff Trail out to Owl Canyon and back. A sunny, windy, feels like -5F walk in the Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A deep water-filled bootprint in the mud, now all frozen solid, sums up today's trail conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gathering in the puddled and rutted Hennepin lot, except the puddles and mud are concrete hard!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">This inch+ deep puddle was solid ice with a frost speckled surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bright sun and blue sky really hides the below zero windchill!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">When walking with a geologist he will point out where the trail crosses an old coal strip mine. The white arrow on the right side of the pic is pointing to the coal seam. This was probably mined for personal use before the Park's 1911 founding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A trail bridge view up Hennepin Creek under the Rt. 71 bridge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A winter trail glimpse of the waterfall on the headwall of Hennepin Canyon. This cannot be seen through the summer vegetation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The turnaround point where the Bluff trail crosses Owl Creek and meets the trail climbing to the Parkmans Plain parking lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is bent "Indian" tree #3 along a fifty-foot section of the Owl Canyon rim. I suspect that all three trees were woven through a long-gone fence that kept hikers safely above the rim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Today's walk caused a modification in a quote from Ruth Westheimer;</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"Our way is not soft grass, it's a bluff trail with lots of frozen mud. But it goes forward, toward the sun."</span></i></b></div>
Hike with Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12701147881243879372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851743479679613246.post-53761914951065914812020-01-09T18:27:00.001-08:002020-01-09T18:27:26.208-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Near forty Starved Rock Walkers hiked out to LaSalle Canyon and back today. Near five miles of the best walking in the Park in a persistent drizzle that occasionally became just plain rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I parked in the newly expanded Parkmans Plain lot and walked downstream to the Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even though the number of parking spaces has doubled, this notice on the map stand reminds us that the number of canyons to visit on this walk has been cut in half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The East Bluff Trail around the headwall of Owl Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The top of the Owl Canyon staircase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 141 steps descend the bluff to the River Trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The bottom of the Owl Canyon Staircase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A River Trail view of the South Bluff. This view is hidden behind a green leaf wall all summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walking downstream towards one of the River Trail bridges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">A channel marker buoy that 180 days of fast moving 2019 flood waters ripped off its anchor cable. Red buoys mark the midriver side of the channel. The ropes seen here do not belong to the buoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Green buoys mark the near shore side of the commercial channel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The River Trail bridge over LaSalle Creek should be part of the "Art in the Park " collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">LaSalle Canyon east wall trail without walkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Same trail with SR Walkers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">An east wall trail bridge and trail retaining wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">The LaSalle Canyon headwall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Far from the tallest but easily my favorite Park waterfall!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving the canyon during a break in the drizzle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the River Trail back towards the Lodge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Leonard L. Levinson,</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds and mopes;</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forty-eight Starved Rock Walkers (+2 dogs) used this sunny day after Christmas to climb the Rock, enter French Canyon, and see Eagle Cliff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There weren't a lot of winter coats and gloves seen today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To go from the Lodge to the Rock you have to descend the 150 metal tread staircase down the South Bluff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two-thirds of the climb up the Rock is an asphalt ramp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sixty-six more stairs and you reach the boardwalk that circles the top of Starved Rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this view from the Rock to Leopold Island</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">you can see the beach and rip-rap around the island that has been under water about 180 days this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This second flag pole, 100-feet of stainless steel, was gifted to the Park by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1988. They also supplied the first pole in 1913. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A view of Starved Rock Lodge from the west side of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starved Rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back down the 66 steps and headed for French Canyon. Cocoa the dog has been a SR Walker as long as I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now down the ten carved sandstone steps into French Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The waterfall on the headwall of French Canyon, seen today in mostly trickle mode, is probably the most photographed waterfall in Illinois.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today's youngest hiker escorted by far from the oldest of today's hikers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">About forty walkers comes close to filling the floor of French Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once you have walked up the waterfall to enter the canyon, walking down it to exit is not a problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All who entered the canyon also got out without getting wet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A turkey-tail "fun guy" party on a trailside dead tree in French Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forty-seven Starved Rock Walkers (1 dog) met at the Lodge today for our annual Christmas lunch. Whodda thought we would have to take a ninety minute walk before the dining room opened! Fortunately most of us were prepared for that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leaving the Lodge to build some appetite</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">French Creek did not look this cold last week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wore my ice microspike traction. Didn't need them. All we encountered was an inch of loose snow.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Down the stairs to the Wildcat Canyon rim boardwalk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ice climbers have to wait until the hanging icicles meet the growing ice mound to form a complete column. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">An east rim view down to Wildcat Creek shows how the October deluge dammed the left side of the creek and pushed the flow to the right underneath the canyon floor access stairs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Former Park naturalist Tobias Miller would tell young hikers a story about how huge mericats would break the trees during thunderstorms. Maybe!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some helpful Walkers explained that this could be the Park's attempt to attract picnicking kayakers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I always ask "Is the sandstone block holding up the tree or is the tree holding up the sandstone?" Geologists know!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Busy beavers left these morning branch drag marks next to the River Trail leading to the water. We still haven't found where this wood is ending up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of us exchange that green 12-punched club card sitting on the table for a free lunch! The SR Walkers also passed a basket and donated $324.00 to IV PADS. Happy Holidays!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>This shopping season recalls a quote </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>from Anatole France,</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">"It is good to collect things; it is better to take walks."</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Forty-three Starved Rock Walkers (+2 dogs) Took the East Bluff trail out to LaSalle Canyon and came back along the River Trail. A great December day for a walk in the Park!</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fifteen minutes from the Lodge we enter upper</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wildcat Canyon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Leaving Sandstone Point.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I always use this 2014 derecho gust victim as an example of how deeply rooted the Park's trees are NOT.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That's a carp boat in the Starved Rock Pool gunning its engine to drive Asian carp into the nets they just put out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">None of the newly cut wood from the beaver sign we are now seeing along the River Trail is ending up here on the abandoned lodge in LaSalle Creek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The LaSalle Canyon headwall falls are my favorite!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The lower LaSalle Canyon falls and plunge pool.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This walker claims to have been in this canyon some 500 times since April, 2012. Maybe!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">on the River Trail. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Climbing the stairs at Eagle Cliff back towards the Lodge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Even before we finished the heavy morning frost was turning the trail back into mud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have to agree with Paul Dudley White who said,</span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." </span></b></i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mostly forty Starved Rock Walkers (0 dogs) parked in the Hennepin Canyon parking lot and walked the East Bluff Trail out to the Owl Canyon staircase and back again. All were much warmer at the end than they were at the beginning.</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a cold blustery trek from the parking lot to the East Bluff Trail.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rim of Hennepin Canyon.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A trail view into the east branch of </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hennepin Canyon.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A trail bridge view of the Rt. 71 bridge over upper Hennepin Canyon.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An upslope view of the East Bluff Trail.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">just pulls you into the woods.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">into the Illinois River.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">St. Peter Sandstone bluff out to the river.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the forest floor.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A trail view of the staircase leading to the </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">LaSalle Canyon parking lot.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Beginning the return walk across the </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">headwall of Owl Canyon.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can you please take our picture on the Hennepin Bridge?</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Absolutely! </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">"With beauty before me, may I walk. <br />
With beauty behind me, may I walk. <br />
With beauty above me, may I walk.<br />
With beauty below me, may I walk.<br />
With beauty all around me, may I walk.<br />
Wandering on the trail of beauty, </span></i></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">May I walk."<br />
- <i>Navajo: Walking Meditation </i> </span></i> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thirteen intelligent looking SR Walkers (0 dogs) braved the All Hallows Eve blizzard conditions to see Council Overhang, Kaskaskia, & Ottawa Canyons. It was not the usual walk in the Park.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We began during a lull in the precipitation.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The overnight accumulation was enough to turn "the boot" next to the overhang into a snow boot.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The "Autumn" view out the Council Overhang window.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The snow began again as we entered the mouth of Kaskaskia Canyon.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Leaving Kaskaskia Canyon headed for Ottawa Canyon.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A snowglobe view of the Ottawa Canyon headwall.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Ottawa waterfall was forcefully arcing out into its plunge pool!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The two strand lines on the plunge pool indicate that the water was quite recently deeper.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The obligatory down canyon pic from behind the waterfall.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Note the splash patterns of two falls at the bottom of the snowglobe.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the parking lot, seven Walkers decided to continue on into Illinois Canyon. I wasn't one of them.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;">Why do we walk on such a day? Maybe we agree with W.J. Holland who said,</span></i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Happy is the individual who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!"</span></i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Forty plus Starved Rock Walkers (+2 dogs) took the East Bluff Trail out to the Sandstone Point stairs and came back along the River Trail. Last weekend was Fall Colors Weekend at SRSP, but the colors are peaking this weekend. A fine Fall day for a walk in the Park!</span></h3>
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There are 40+ "Art in the Park" chainsaw carvings on the Lodge grounds.This has always been my favorite.</h3>
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An autumn view up French Creek from the trail bridge.</h3>
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SR Walkers passing through upper Wildcat Canyon.</h3>
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An autumn view of the west rim overlook above Wildcat Canyon.</h3>
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A rare glimpse of the east wall of Basswood Canyon.</h3>
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The Park removed the Basswood Canyon trail sign. There was just no good way to keep the "B" in Basswood on this sign!</h3>
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Trail carpeting in being laid down and the "green tunnel" over the trail</h3>
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is turning gold.</h3>
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A refreshing pause atop Sandstone Point.</h3>
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A downriver view of the bluff from Sandstone Point.</h3>
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There's gold in Lone Tree Canyon!</h3>
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The icebox in "witches kitchen" is an older model from Bedrock, Iowa.</h3>
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A River Trail view of the stuff that makes up Sandstone Point.</h3>
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There is no McDonald's in the Park, but you may see a "golden arch" along the River Trail.</h3>
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Almost every SR Walker overlooks the Beehive.</h3>
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"Been there, done that!"</h3>
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The River Trail bridge across Pontiac Creek.</h3>
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The spider-like blossoms of witch hazel.</h3>
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A River Trail sighting of the Eagle Cliff platform.</h3>
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A view of Autumn arriving onto the South Bluff from the Eagle Cliff platform.</h3>
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This white oak leaf is obviously wearing its Halloween costume!</h3>
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So many acorns, so little time!</h3>
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Autumn is falling onto the "Hungry Butte". Don't miss it!</h3>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As Lou Reed says,</span></i></h2>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Take a walk on the wild side!" </span></i></h2>
Hike with Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12701147881243879372noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851743479679613246.post-59435538095977531472019-09-26T16:45:00.001-07:002019-09-26T16:45:10.341-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was a perfect Fall day for the SR Walkers visit to Buffalo Rock State Park. (48 walkers, 2 dogs). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I caught Holly as she was leaving her shed for some</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> sun bathing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pebbles mother, Holly, passed a few weeks ago. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She is now awaiting a new companion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The oak trees in the park are majestic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What you cannot see here are the mosquitoes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">because there are none!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Walkers gearing up in the Parking lot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This pair was among the first time walkers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You may want to adjust your walking schedule to this sign at the beginning of the Effigy Tumuli Trail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The trail meanders through an old strip mine that was reclaimed some thirty years ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hard to believe we played "Moon Explorers" here in the 1960's when it was grey mounds of mine waste totally devoid of plant life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had to scale the head of the catfish effigy to get this pic of the group pausing at a river overlook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There is a single file path through the prairie </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">out to the catfish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most of the group thought is was a perfect day </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">to summit the catfish!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No switchbacks up this summit!</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hydration break at the turnaround point at the west edge of the Park.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The return trail leaves the tumuli prairie</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for the shaded forest. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last stop on the overlook platform just below </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the picnic area. A great way to begin autumn!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Charles Dickens once said:</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The sum of the whole is this:</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">walk and be happy;</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">walk and be healthy.</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The best way to lengthen our days</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">is to walk steadily and with a purpose."</span></b></i></span></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Starved Rock Walkers Club (+1 dog) drove to the east end of the Park to see Council Overhang, Ottawa and Kaskaskia Canyons. Then they hiked the trail connecting two parking lots (the Swamp Trail) to go in and out of Illinois canyon. A nice late summer sojourn! </span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Walkers on the hardly muddy trail to Council Overhang. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Forty-some walkers had plenty of room in the native American "man cave" named Council Overhang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leaving the Overhang and entering Ottawa Canyon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is Jeremiah. He's a good friend of mine! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lobelia loves the damp parts of the Park like here along Kaskaskia Creek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A brief pause here at the headwall of Kaskaskia Canyon.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Exiting the mouth of Kaskaskia Canyon headed </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for Illinois Canyon.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, we are not reporting the broken "blarney stone" in the canyon! ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A September view up Illinois Creek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Touch-me-not" pods in front of a jewel weed blossom. Both parts of the same plant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A line of "fun guys" on a trail step-over.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, the trails are gathering a leaf carpet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We thought we were crossing a creek, but it might well be a summer/fall boundary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A forest growing on a canyon floor has to get its branches straight up into the sunlight as quickly as possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A quiet pool along Illinois Creek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thirty many Starved Rock Walkers and three dogs drove into Utica and walked the tow path west to Split Rock and back again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Walkers gather at the trailhead near the Utica sky scrapers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, the I & M Canal State Trail is the official name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The railroad bridge over Peccumsagen Creek beyond which is located the Blackball Mines Nature Preserve, a bat sanctuary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The mouth of the old train tunnel that still goes through</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> north Split Rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> North Split Rock is one of the best exposures of the west-dipping sandstone strata of the LaSalle Anticline. Yes, geology students statewide come to see this outcrop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time to play "Spot the Turtles". Here are four of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One Splash later and only two are left. The empty spaces are to the right of those two. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Some walkers were already prepped for tonight's Bears/Packers game. There were no Green Bay jerseys present on this hike! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The new rental bikes between Utica & LaSalle have brought white pea gravel fill into the more jarring tow path potholes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who knew teenage boys could swear, fight, & gamble! Mule driver was one of Wild Bill's many short-term employments.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.</span></span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the heck she is!"</span></span></b></i></div>
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Forty Starved Rock Walkers eased into this beautiful August day by hiking the East Bluff Trail out to the Sandstone Point staircase and back along the River Trail. A pleasant ~4 miles! </div>
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SR Walkers leaving the Lodge headed for the trailhead. </div>
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The East Bluff Trail has been shaded by the "green tunnel" since June.</div>
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Yellow false foxgloves on Sandstone Point.</div>
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It is not difficult to get a good river pic from atop Sandstone Point.</div>
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The trail is curving around the headwall of Lone Tree Canyon.</div>
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It is somehow fitting that this is the lone remaining canyon sign on the East Bluff Trail.</div>
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The trail mud is long gone!</div>
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Down is the preferred direction on the Sandstone Point staircase!</div>
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The Eagle 1 tour boat has been walking the dinner cruise passengers into Lone Tree Canyon for a brief visit.</div>
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Unfortunately, the "ice box" in witch's kitchen is starting to collect artwork. :(</div>
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Jewel weed blossoms along the River Trail. </div>
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Break time on the floor of Wildcat Canyon. </div>
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The Wildcat Canyon waterfall has achieved complete invisibility.</div>
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A line of cormorant "fenceposts" on a log snag below the SR dam. </div>
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The calm before the Labor Day weekend on the Eagle Cliff boardwalk.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Forty-odd 😉 Starved Rock Walkers drove to the River Area of Matthiessen State Park for a humid, bug spray scented, walk in the Park. The bug spray was not needed but the water bottles were much appreciated.</span></div>
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Gearing up in the parking lot. </div>
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There is a short walk across the prairie...</div>
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… before the trail narrows and dives into the "green tunnel" woods.</div>
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Most trails in this Park are multiple use; hikers, mountain bikers, and horses. We didn't see any of the other users today.</div>
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With the trail mud all dried we didn't expect to see any waterfalls but we found one on this 1-foot tall step down!</div>
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We didn't expect any fish either, but that bottom shadow in the center is not under a tadpole!</div>
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We kept walking on an off an old mine tailing. Walk around the block if you want level trails.</div>
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Limestone was quarried here over 100-years ago.</div>
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Few walkers under age 40 need a walking stick. Many hikers over age 50 appreciate the stability of becoming a tripod. </div>
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This UFO suspended in the understory is the work of a busy orb weaver.</div>
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The bottom of the Vermilion River Valley marked the halfway point. That means it is all uphill from here!</div>
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The LaSalle Limestone bedrock sensed a sudden overshadowing!</div>
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Like everyone else, even the photographer survived the climb out of the river valley.</div>
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It is always a relief to break out of the woods close to the same place we started!</div>
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45 SR Walkers enjoyed the first day of the last full month of summer by walking the East Bluff Trail from the Hennepin parking lot out to Owl Canyon and back. A perfect August morning for a walk in the Park!</div>
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Here is a close look at Chicory, all those blue roadside weed dots you are currently speeding past. Stop, look, and enjoy their celebration of summer!</div>
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Crossing Rt. 71 and plunging into the green tunnel.</div>
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True Queen Anne's Lace always has that one centered purple blossom.</div>
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Purple Sweet Clover is just beginning to celebrate August.</div>
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It is nice when the trail reminds you it is indeed a glorious morning!</div>
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This is exactly what you want to see on a Milkweed!</div>
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Since all Park trails are now under the green tunnel no sunscreen is needed. Oddly enough, no insect repellent was needed either!</div>
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These Walkers pause on the south rim...</div>
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Walkers on a mud-free trail descent across a dry Owl Creek.</div>
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It is the pileated woodpecker that leaves these oval shaped tree borings.</div>
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A trail view of the Rt. 71 bridge across upper Hennepin Canyon.</div>
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A trail section along the east rim of Hennepin Canyon.</div>
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A trail bridge view up a rapidly drying Hennepin Creek.</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">A perfect day for this quote from Jamie Luner,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Hiking is the best workout!...You can hike for two hours and not even realize you are working out."</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It might be that only twenty-five SR Walkers remembered that Thursday's walk was happening on Wednesday this week. It was a humid pre-holiday walk out to Eagle Cliff and back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Most walkers took on an extra drink of water as we left the Lodge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Everyone enjoys the gravity assist that comes with going down the 150 metal stairs that separate the Lodge from the Visitors Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> All Park trails will be under the "green tunnel" until October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The narrow waterfilled opening into French Canyon forces all groups into a single file.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leaving the canyon is always trickier than climbing into it. Last night's inch+ rainfall made it even more interesting! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A pause in the shaded parts of Lovers Leap is always refreshing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and this overlook always gives the best view of the Hungry Butte, now covered in Summer green. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An Eagle Cliff view of the SR dam shows that only tainter gate #3 is in "none shall pass" mode. The nine other gates are raised at least six feet to allow the latest large rainfall to move downstream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the Bluff Trail bends around the rim of French Canyon the Lodge is very near. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">French Creek is also in a hurry to get out into the river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A view of French Creek disappearing down the fall into lower French Canyon.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yes, the SR Walkers always end up right where they started.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">As Robert Louis Stevenson said,</span></i></b></div>
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Forty-seven SR Walkers Club members did the best hike in the Park today by trekking out to LaSalle Canyon and back. June finally turned the rain off for a while, but a huge bucket of humidity was dumped on the Walkers today.</div>
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The first climb out of French Canyon onto the Campanula boardwalk.</div>
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The group arrived at the boardwalk around the rim of Wildcat Canyon looking very unwilted.</div>
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No worries, the East Rim Overlook has a capacity of 20 hikers. A number I just made up.</div>
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The overlook view down the canyon's headwall waterfall.</div>
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At 9:20AM there were no "ants" to be seen 95-feet down on the floor of Wildcat Canyon.</div>
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The Walkers used the well-packed edges of the muddy East Bluff Trail all the way out to Sandstone Point.</div>
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The East Bluff Trail on the headwall of Basswood Canyon is one of the muddiest sections. Bypass trails that formed increasing higher on the headwall are abandoned as the mud dries. </div>
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The group occupies the shade at the back of Sandstone Point to listen to some guy expound on the characteristics of the unusually round St. Peter sand grains.</div>
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Now that the rainwater has mostly run off, the iron-stained groundwater is all that is meandering down "no name" creek.</div>
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The LaSalle Canyon waterfall is the turnaround point for the now quite wilted group.</div>
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This long log has been snagged near the south shore of the river for years,....</div>
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...but only had one sunbather on it this morning.</div>
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On the return trip we met this fresh group of walkers enjoying the East Rim Overlook.</div>
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By 11:15AM, a lot more "ants" had found the floor of Wildcat Canyon.</div>
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An East Rim view of the West Rim Overlook at Wildcat Canyon.</div>
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It has finally dried up enough so that the expansion of the LaSalle Canyon parking lot on Parkman's Plain north of Rt. 71 has begun in earnest.</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">It's SUMMERTIME and the living is easy. </span></i></b></div>
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Thirty+ Starved Rock Walkers parked their cars on the east side of the Park and walked nearly five miles back to the Lodge for their pre-purchased box lunches. Then, ten+ Walkers decided to make it a "Mostly Megahike" and walked all the way back to their parked cars! Yes, with nearly an inch of rain last night there was MUD involved. </div>
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The caravan parked in the Council Overhang parking lot and started walking down river to the Lodge.</div>
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The mud on the Bluff Trail meant you kept your eyes on your feet. There was active slippage in many places!</div>
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Exiting the Bluff Trail down the Owl Canyon stairs meant things got nicer on the River Trail. This trailside primrose thinks so!</div>
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No need to watch your feet on the River Trail!</div>
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OOPS! About half of the River Trail still demanded strict attention!</div>
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I keep trying to take a bad picture of the trail bridge over LaSalle Creek. Another epic fail!</div>
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Not much sun, but there were spots of glorious morning.</div>
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Even saw a group of Susans. resting trailside.</div>
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Spiderwort is peaking everywhere!</div>
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Of course I trudged back to the LaSalle Canyon headwall to see this!</div>
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If you are still carrying a single use plastic water bottle then STOP IT! I'm getting too old to pick them up! Please choose a reusable container instead.</div>
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Yes, these are poison ivy berries so don't touch them. I will return in about a week to save you from the "rotting" black ones! ;)</div>
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The River Walk is a six-foot wide poured concrete path along the riverbank between Sandstone Point and Wildcat Creek. Apparently, plants don't like anything six-feet wide!</div>
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The Mayapple leaves make this last attempt at color before they disappear. Many Spring wildflower blossoms, stems, and leaves are completely gone by the end of June.</div>
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My new hiking boots have been adequately welcomed by SRSP!</div>
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Some Walkers enjoyed their last lunch of Spring 2019 outside on Fox Ridge.<br /><br />
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After lunch these Walkers geared up and headed back to the Council Overhang parking lot!</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">All Park trails remain open, but how has this record wet Spring treated them? I'll leave you with these trail pics from today's walk.</span></i></b></div>
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Today 33 Starved Rock Walkers drove to the Museum parking lot in Utica and walked the I & M Canal trail towards Buffalo Rock. Another small group of club members decided to walk west to Split Rock instead. I stuck with the majority.</div>
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We left the Museum lot with the wind at our backs.</div>
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Here the trail crosses to the south side of the canal.</div>
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Most of this trail section between Utica and Buffalo Rock is now shaded by the "green tunnel".</div>
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About 2.5 miles east of Utica is a washout that took out a section of the trail in 2013. This is a view from barricade to barricade across the gap which is being filled in by six years of growth.</div>
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The creek now flows through the 30-foot wide by 10-foot high gap created when the two 6-foot culverts that carried the creek under the trail were washed away in 2013.</div>
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A much improved bridge now spans most of the creek to ease bikers & hikers around the gap.</div>
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The barricade is our turnaround point for the walk back to Utica.</div>
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All managed to overcome the only trail obstruction along this section. </div>
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All walkers dress for the weather they expect to encounter.</div>
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Many walkers also use trekking poles to ease the load on their knees. I mostly use my pole to point at things.</div>
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Back across the canal to the parking lot.</div>
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This was the first walk for my news Oboz hiking boots. My feet were very pleased!</div>
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BTW - The silt and driftwood have been removed from about 25% of the main parking lot at SRSP. The first parking down by the river since April 1st!</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My new boots recalled this quote from Emme Woodhull-Bache,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"You need special shoes for hiking</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> - and a bit of a special soul as well."</span></i></b></div>
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