Great Lakes Summer Trip

I am now in the process of posting 11 hikes I took as part of a hiking trip to the Great Lakes this past summer (July 2012).  These hikes are located in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.  The Kentucky and Indiana/Illinois sections are now complete.  I am working on the Michigan/Wisconsin/Minnesota section now.  After I complete that section, the two sections in the western USA will come next.

Also, I have almost finished updating as many of the "old" hikes as I can by adding Google maps and pictures from the trail.  Unfortunately, I have found that I have fewer old hiking pictures than I had hoped, so many blog entries remain without pictures.  In particular, many hikes in Georgia, Virginia, and Ohio remain in the old format.  Many of these trails will require re-hiking before I can update them.

Google Maps

As I continue to think of ways to make this blog better, I am now working on adding a Google map of the hike to each blog entry.  I am entering these maps by hand and not from GPS, so the accuracy is not the best.  In particular, the maps are designed only to give you an idea as to the trail's route.  Also, since the Google map does not consider every curve in the trail bed, the distance calculation given by the Google map will almost always underestimate the actual length of the trail.  The best estimate I have for the trail length is still given in the introduction of the trail description.