Thursday, June 27, 2013

Starved Rock State Park - St Louis Canyon

This was one of my favorite canyons, probably because it was the easiest to hike into and out of. With the others you have to hike up and down the bluff at least once. For St Louis you drive in off the main road and park almost at the bottom of the canyon so the hike in is pretty flat.









The entire hike in you're deep in the woods and all you notice is the trees, then suddenly you round a corner and realize there are vertical cliff walls on both sides of you.

RTD26 part three

  By day 2 our 4 cars had turned into 7. By Friday we finally made it to Fontana Village NC and met up with another 40ish cars. Our fall tri...