Archive for January, 2009
There Goes the Neighborhood…
Friday, January 23rd, 2009I ran across this article, regarding the rising black bear population in lower Michigan, linked from one of the hiking lists that I’ve been reading. This particular article does not mention it, but in November 2007, a 150-lb. (small, but still it’s a bear) bear was struck by a car on the freeway in […]
A Change of Crayon…
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Just passing this along… truly a heart-warming thought (as seen through the eyes of the 6-year old daughter of my boss). Click the image to read…
A Change of Crayonby Alice Moore, age 6
Letterboxing & Biking on the NCT
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Several people have asked if I am planning to plant letterboxes along the North Country Trail as we hike the Manistee Forest Segment. Actually Randy was shocked when I told him my intent was not letterboxing as that is generally the impetus behind our hiking adventures. Since the NCT is administered through the […]
NCT Plan
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Randy and I are busy making plans for some significant hiking on the North Country Trail. The NCT is a premier footpath that stretches for about 4,600 miles linking communities, forests, and prairies across seven northern states between Crown Point, NY and Lake Sakakawa State Park, ND. Several sections of the trail are still […]
Hiking Pages
Monday, January 19th, 2009I’ve added a few pages to my site with information on some of the hiking I’ve done. At this point it is just a list, but I do plan to detail some of the more memorable hikes from the past couple of years and going forward.
File Under “Stupid Rules”
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Apparently one cannot pay USPS “postage” due with “postage.” Let’s think about this logically for a minute… Somebody sent me a package which did not contain enough postage; the post office delivered it to me and left me a “postage” due envelope indicating that the actual postage on the package was short $2.03 […]