400 Blog Hikes!

I am still in the process of posting some of my old Ohio hikes, but I thought it worth noting that I completed my 400th hike for this blog during a trip to the Smoky Mountains last week.  I number my hikes in chronological order, so Hike #001 was my very first hike (Governor Bebb Preserve in Ohio: I first went there as a kid with my dad).  I will post a master list eventually, but for now here is a run-down of my milestone hikes:

Hike #100: Highbanks Metropark near Columbus, OH, hiked in July 2001.
Hike #200: Rim Trail at Bryce Canyon in Utah, hiked in May 2006.  Side note: my Grand Canyon hike was #201; DOH!
Hike #300: Twin Lakes State Park in southern Virginia, hiked in April 2010.
Hike #400: Deep Creek Loop at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, hiked in October 2012.

I am working on writing up my 4 hikes from the Smoky Mountain trip.  I will get them posted after I get the trail descriptions written.

I am also on track to challenge my record for number of new hikes in a calendar year.  My current record is 40 new hikes set in 2010.  I already have 35 new hikes this year, and it is only October.

Here's to 400 hikes, and to 400 more!

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.