tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90385402338289047642024-03-05T21:21:28.426-06:00All roads lead to roamAdventures and mishaps of an unschooling family in North Alabama. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comBlogger1043125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-92130405865123957442018-10-03T11:13:00.002-05:002018-10-03T11:16:19.201-05:00Fin!Last night during the standing ovation after Ben's final homeschool orchestra concert, it hit me. He got his diploma in June, orchestra class is finished. That's it. July 1 marked 18 years since I started the homeschooling journey with the kids at 10 months, 2 years and 4 years of age and now we are at the end. What is that overused saying? The days are slow but the years pass quickly? That's it in a nutshell, even if it's not word for word.<br />
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I have struggled with what's next for the past few years. The kids did high school on their own with help from the internet. I know their education has gaps, but they will fill them in as needed. Teaching yourself what you need to know is easier than ever. So is falling down rabbit holes when looking for information, but I did that all the way through school. Went to the library to research an assigned topic and came out with a stack of novels and a few nonfiction books on things that caught my eye. Too bad the internet isn't always that benign as most forks in the path lead more toward funny videos or memes than anything semi-useful.<br />
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I don't think I realized what an impact computers would have on our homeschooling. We had one, ONE, at the time. It was on dial-up, I used it off an on during the day, Matt at night after work and we barely touched it on weekends. The other stay at home moms I connected with were the same way. About 4:30 local time, we'd start signing off with, "See you tomorrow!" Or Monday if it was the weekend.<br />
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When we first got the computer, Matt suggested I could store recipes on it, I barely touched it. After a few months, I joined a couple bulletin board chats and the first time I got a direct response, which at the time went right to your e-mail, I was SO excited. An E-MAIL! I joined a ghost story site, bought things from one of the early auction sites-everything from toys to an elliptical machine. We still use a small cabinet I got for the bathroom.<br />
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We got a printer and I printed out worksheets from one of the two or three websites with them at the time. We printed out directions for trips, and later confirmations for campsites or hotel rooms booked ONLINE. I messed around with building websites.<br />
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The kids had several computer games that taught them shapes, typing, reading, spelling, math. The levels progressed all the way through 5th grade and computer time was scheduled into the days. We got a second computer, a laptop for me. Then that was passed to Chandler and I got a new laptop. Matt eventually built his own for gaming and Jake and Ben shared the family computer until Ben was 13 and got his own Dad-built computer.<br />
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I look back and wonder how many hours we spent sitting around the kitchen table vs sitting in front of a computer. We used to go to the local state park on Wednesdays when it was free and do school at the picnic tables. They would finish their lists and I would check their work while they played. That is honestly the only 'sit together and work' time I recall outside of co-op. They usually sat while I went over the daily goals and we would read history twice a week and they would do math sheets twice a week, then science and whatever experiments we had going before lunch. After lunch was computer time, reading, copywork and then journaling as they got older. Friday was art, roller skating, friend time, field trips. Everyone we knew had a similar schedule, Friday was Fun Day. After a while, we turned Tuesday into the hangout day, most often at our house, and kept it that way for years. Jake was 19 before we stopped hosting. The last gathering was his birthday/graduation celebration.<br />
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We did Charlotte Mason when they were very young, then unit studies, then child-led as they got older and their interests went different directions. Then unschooling, with me not so much strewing as just sending them assignments from Khan Academy on Sunday night. I don't know what it was at the end. Lots of me with lists of things they 'should know' and stocking the shelves in the bathroom with all the high school reading list books, sending links to Crash Course, pointing out various colleges. I'll call it Hopeful Nagging.<br />
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Last night Ben thanked his band director, his friends who played with him, his friends who came to see him play, his sister for her support, his Dad for pitching in last-minute to cover drums and that was it. No 'thanks Mom' at all. And that's how it goes. That 18 years of them growing up was 18 years of my life as well, time I am glad I was able to spend with them day in and day out.<br />
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I will keep blogging for a bit here before swapping to a new blog. The website is gone, "roamschool" is no more, though I will retain the name a little longer. Not ready for just anyone to be able to set up shop under what was our banner for many years. It may have been a thankless job, but it was my whole world for a long time. And I was very lucky that it was.<br />
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I planned exactly zero for this trip. Katy arranged our tour time at the City Museum and paid for tickets and we all sent her money. Amanda picked where we camped and got all the campsites together and made our mining tour reservations and we all sent her money. I just drove north with gear and clothes and that is about all I have put into this. Well, and I got new front tires, but that would have happened anyway. </div>
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Ben and I arrived hours ahead of everyone else and got set up, went to get him some dinner and made a run by the store for a few things.</div>
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Friday we got up and hung out for a while, then I decided we should go to the zoo, which is free, so we did. It's a great zoo, well worth checking out! </div>
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After the zoo, it was time for the City Museum. We stayed 6 hours and though the kids could have done 6 more, it was also pushing midnight. Back at camp, everyone crashed. </div>
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Afterward, it was Mexican food time, then a nap back at camp, then a group suicide attempt via rope swings and shallow water. Dinner, marshmallow fire, shared tales of personal injury-the little kids wanted LOADS of gory details, nothing short of at LEAST blood was deemed worthy. </div>
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I crashed out at 9 and Ben and I were first up Sunday. No one else was stirring, so we packed up and finally, Katy popped out of her camper. We said our goodbyes and headed back into St. Louis to do the Arch. Everyone else headed home, though we beat them in, even with a few hours at the arch and adding 2 hours to the drive. I guess traveling without little ones means longer stretches of drive time. </div>
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To strengthen columns, they wrapped them in steel cables and drove wood blocks into the gaps.<br />
These have held for 100 years now.<br />
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Sammy's life vest amused us all.<br />
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One of the original shafts used to haul the lead out, this opening is now just behind the city funeral home.<br />
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It's all lit from above, which makes it easier for divers to orient themselves than it would be to have lights under the water as well.<br />
The mine has 5 levels, the bottom three are flooded.<br />
On the third level, there are still buildings and an old movie theater.<br />
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The windows are 7x27 inches<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-87389087399176074312018-09-02T17:06:00.000-05:002018-09-02T17:06:16.557-05:00Fixing OwiesI have had various impinged nerves from injury and repetitive use...like holding a phone. Insane. <br />
But it's serious pain, life altering because of fear of making it worse or just setting it off again. <br />
Most recently, the pain has been in my shoulder and upper arm, a combination of phone over use and exercise. <br />
I've addressed both issues, but the pain didn't go away after a week or two of rest. So I've added in nerve flossing exercises to help get things back to normal. <br />
Note how I have not yammered about kayaking in a while? That's because I have not been in 6 weeks! Kurt and Katy brought a kayak for me to use the last time I was out, and loaded and unloaded it right down to putting it in the water for me. I just had to paddle, which thankfully isn't affected. It was a nice touring kayak, now I want one. It tracked like it was on a rail.<br />
I'm getting off topic.<br />
My point is, check out nerve flossing for persistent pain or numbness, especially if you have injured yourself in some way. <br />
So many people I talk to have never heard of it before, I wanted to post something here so all three of my readers could be informed. Hahaha! I have no idea how many people read this actually, but if it helps even one, I'm happy. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-52823763444441373882018-08-12T09:30:00.000-05:002018-08-12T16:24:45.810-05:00Tumbling Rock Cave<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We went Saturday to Tumbling Rock Cave. This is another SSCI owned cave and requires a free permit to enter. There is a locked gate at the entrance. </div>
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Jennifer arranged the whole thing, borrowed helmets for us, gave us a gear list. I didn't remember to get gloves! I won't forget that again. Plus, I need kneepad upgrades.<br />
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It was Matt, Ben, me and Helen, her husband Hue, and their daughter, Pickle.<br />
We went because Pickle really wanted to be in a 'real' cave after doing a cave tour.<br />
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The plan was to go to Limrock, but the rain changed our plans at the last minute. Limrock is a wet cave, Tumbling Rock is pretty dry.<br />
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It's also slated a good beginner cave, so I felt like I would be okay.<br />
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We picked up a couple who were first-time cavers and had gone in to see the waterfall but were heading back out when they realized the map wasn't very helpful.<br />
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There were lots of piles of breakdown for us to climb up and down and crawl and slide.<br />
I think we did about 4 miles inside the cave and I was WIPED OUT by the time we got back to the cars. My Netflix and Chill Summer Training Program has left me unfit for such things.<br />
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These stretches of long, flat walking with high ceilings were almost cruel because within a minute or two, another crawling climb awaited.<br />
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Pickle found some cool fossils.<br />
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Pickle explaining the difference in stalagmites, stalactites, and columns.<br />
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Another long drop!<br />
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We climbed up into a hole in the ceiling. Well, everyone else climbed into a hole in the ceiling, I was talked through the moves while hoisting myself up using Matt and Hue's knees instead of my upper arms to get through.<br />
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The hole led to a passage which led to a room that was 400 feet high.<br />
In rainy times, the waterfall is huge and it comes out the hole we climbed up, you get soaked.<br />
It was just a trickle on this trip, so the 397-foot waterfall drop was not very dramatic!<br />
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Nearly out, a troop of about 20 scouts caught up with us. They had been in the cave since 9 a.m. and had gone to see a different area.<br />
The cave itself is over 6 miles long and has several spots that branch off and go under or over the main route that we took.<br />
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Ben was barely dirty!<br />
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It was an awesome trip, we are already planning for next time!<br />
I have a list of stuff to remember, too.<br />
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This was not the first time I have gotten wet and muddy in a cave, or eaten inside a cave. Or thought I was going to slide to my death. It is the first time I have climbed into another level like we did in the hole and it was the first time I peed in a cave! Maybe TMI, but it was a Life Experience. And...it was loud and echoed. I decided everyone there knew what I was doing since Jennifer had gone over the ground rules about where would do the least damage and various 'going in a cave' tips. But still. It echoed. hahahaha!<br />
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Great way to spend the day, we were in there over 7 hours!<br />
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I have been sick, sick, and sicker. A croupy cough, snotty nose, gunky chest, hacking cough, more snot, a fever, then a round of coughing until I threw up for two days, then a few days later an actual stomach bug and more of the pukes. That was yesterday, actually. I feel like I have been run through a wringer, my joints ache and I am still dehydrated, but bouncing back ever so slowly. My voice still comes and goes.</div>
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A few things have happened. I got new glasses, which feel very heavy after 5 years with my half ounce pair. But they are so scratched up that I can't actually see with them on, so...these super heavy ones it is.</div>
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My father is trying to die, but for real, unlike my overdramatic attempts with this chest cold. He's run down to the point of being worn out and I don't think he has anything in that reserve tank. I've been running interference from afar, terrified of giving him this crud and actually succeeding in doing him in. His wife says he sleeps all the time and has thrown out his medicine. He's stopped doing anything he likes and is not even leaving the house anymore. She's ready to kill him for the worry it's causing because it's not like him at all. Sometimes she calls just to say, "Well, he's still breathing. I can hear him in there snoring."</div>
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I am at a loss, he's a grown man who has never had a health issue until that stroke at Christmas. Since then, he's been in increasingly worse shape despite physical therapy and about 50 doctors appointments. He keeps being told how lucky he is, but to his mind and, he's right, he's always been very healthy. It doesn't feel very lucky to have half your body feel like it's got an electrical current running through it. His hand feels like it is cold, he can't hold things very well, he stumbles sometimes. He's showing his age all at once. The doctors have been useless, that I can sympathize with at least. I'm wondering if acupuncture might help. I wonder if he has apnea. He's refusing to go to any more doctors. I wonder if I can get him in a headlock. He's pretty little...</div>
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I want to be over this crud so I can go look at him and see what my heart says to do. I'm only getting filtered info and have not spoken directly to him in over 2 weeks. I'm just getting this down as a point of reference, I don't expect blogging about it will accomplish anything, it's just been a big part of the last week or so and I'm having to make decisions without enough information, in particular about what HE wants. Judy and I would prop him up with a drip and keep him hanging on another 20 years if it were up to us. I just read a book I think he would like. He still hasn't been out in the kayaks, we were threatening to drive to Maine together-him to get it off his list, me to actually SEE some stuff.</div>
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Anyway, that's the goings on. Cairn kindly sent me a second water bottle after I tattled on Ben for stealing my first one. I've joined a few camping trips and one manatee snorkeling trip that went from pretty basic to INSANE this past week. I'm going to snorkel with manatee and then paddle around Florida in my wee boat a few days. Those nuts can do what they want, whew!</div>
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From the full moon trip to see the bats-which we actually saw this time.</div>
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I fully do not understand how freezing up is a good defense. They are house pets, not the Jurassic Park T-rex.<br /><br />Matt is off to Baltimore until Tuesday. YES! Yes, he did cancel our backpacking trip for my birthday because he did not want to reschedule his rehab appointment Monday. YES! Yes, he DID INDEED reschedule it anyway after he got the chance to travel for work! NO! No, he will not be home ON MY BIRTHDAY.<br />NO! No, I am not irritated AT ALL. WHY WOULD I BE?<br /><br />Okay, I am a little. :/<br />And it's rehab for a back injury, not a drug problem.<br /></div>
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The AC in the van went out while I was still in the driveway. I have a HEAVY chest cough and Ben is just getting over a similar funk. My energy level is about 3 out of 10. Then Matt called from the doctor's office to say they figured out why his back hurts-he's fractured it. There's a meeting Monday to discuss what to do about it and how much it will cost.<br />
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We parked at the Devils Step Boat Launch/Day Use Area.<br />
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We arrived and Ben got sunscreen in his eyes. Then he tried really hard to pull off his toenail on a rock. Alex had a paddle that looked like squirrels had eaten 1/3 of one blade. He had a splinter in his foot that my tweezers were useless against. There were terrified feral kittens in the weeds that we could not catch. It was a REALLY WEIRD, really off feeling day. It was hot, too. Heat index in the triple digits.<br />
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There was an info kiosk, but no way to sign in, as it states is required to use the blueway.<br />
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So, we launched our boats. We went over to Devil's Step Island and paddled around it then back to the van to get first aid, then back to the island to try to find the cemetery. It's very easy to find, it's right next to the campsite. The campsite smelled like someone had used diesel fuel to try to get wood burning and the smaller trees all around the site were chopped about belly-button high. It looked awful between the piles of partially melted trash in the fire pit and the hacked up trees. Not where I would want to set up even if it is next to a cemetery.<br />
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The cemetery was pretty beaten up. The fence around it had been hit by trees over the years and at least 2 graves had collapsed. There were 3-4 stones that were still readable.<br />
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After we got back in the boats, we headed across toward Maple Bend island. It was rough going in the heat and we pulled off to have a snack and drink. We discussed going for a swim, but the water is VERY warm, it was not refreshing. We made the last push to the island and checked out that campsite. It was in the sun, slanted red clay tent platform, just as trashed as the first site and it smelled like everyone who had ever camped there had peed in the same spot. The smell was overwhelming! It was like goat pee.<br />
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As the day went on, more and more boats were on the water. The wakes from them made for HARD paddling, there was lots of stopping to swing our boats into the waves to keep from tipping, then paddling hard to get some distance before the next boat. One guy was just doing circles, coming back over and over to turn at the last minute before hitting one of us. I BET HE DRIVES A TRUCK.<br />
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First, Ben has some confusion about how to kayak.<br />
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All of the banks are badly eroded and nearly all are mostly rock ledge. There's not much shore, at least in this part of the lake. It drops off quickly.<br />
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You can't paddle right smack next to each other.<br />
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I'd apologize for the bright lighting, but that's what it looked like.<br />
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Back across, it's Maple on the right and Goose to the left. Maple Bend is a HUGE island.<br />
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There are 3 more islands with camping to check out. They are closer to the state park, so maybe a little less manky? There are also two "non-motorized boats only" launches near Estill Springs, so I want to check those out in hopes that there is at least a small section of the lake that isn't overrun with fast boats.<br />
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For now, the van is at the shop. We had hoped Matt's $150 battery Monday was it for the month, but no. My van is unwilling to let another vehicle hog the budget. My voice is gone, Ben feels so rotten he's actually skipping band.<br />
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Update: It was a fuse. Which might be a fluke or it might be the compressor going out.<br />
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I'm going to have a few days of downtime. I have the house clean and the yard mowed, so I am declaring this a holiday weekend and we are not going to do anything that does not involve being in front of a van or at least neck-deep in cool water.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">You know how I have a list of places I want to hike to?</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">I have another list, of places I want to paddle to. It's almost as long as the hike list...</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Near the top, even from before I had a boat, I had Hambrick Cave. It's a very unassuming slot cave at water level near the dam, recently fenced off. It looks like it might be a rain-runoff waterfall track which makes me think there are multiple exits.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">To get to it, park at either end of the Honeycomb trail and paddle parallel to the trail until you see the cave. It is impossible to miss, there's even a couple of signs. It's closest to the dam end.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">I don't know why I thought it would be more difficult to locate or dangerous (because of boat traffic) to visit. I guess it's what my brain does with locations. I felt very comfortable going last night, even though it was with 20+ total strangers and one person-Jennifer-I have only hiked with a couple times. I think it's because I KNOW the Honeycomb Trail, I've hiked that thing a dozen times now.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">The group was, as is almost required in the area, made up mostly of engineers. I talked to men who worked for NASA, on the Arsenal, who owned small companies. People who spend weekends in caves or climbing cliffs or building robots and brewing beer in the garage. It was an eclectic mix of about 15 or so men and 6-7 women and boats...I love Spero, but gosh She was very low end in that flotilla! A couple yaks looked set to head into a month in the Arctic. No one else had named their boat though. I felt sorry for them. We were the youngest people there by 10 years.</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">I ended up talking to a couple from a town near us! NEAR US! His name is Phillip and his wife is Stephanie and they had borrowed kayaks-also Perception Swiftys! Theirs were the older models that REI carried years back. One was sun bleached and the other had been set upon by squirrels. (hello, new worries) He tried to make our own radio station called Swifty 95, DLX. Then I said it was 9 point 5, as in the boats are 9 and a half feet long and I can't sing. So then we gossiped about the Cullman paper when Dick's-where we got our boats-opened the headline said: "Cullman has the Smallest Dick's in Alabama". Ah. Hometown pride. hahahahahaha</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">His wife seemed worried about snakes (he did too) and bat poop and other things. But she had a shaved head, so she is badass in other ways no doubt. I will just go ahead and say now that snakes are NOT GOING TO TRY TO GET IN YOUR BOAT. I see them every time I am out and they are always going off in the other direction. Even the one that dropped out of a tree over the water the other day made sure to drop next to the boat and not in it. I will, however, say that if one DID fall in the boat, I would probably get out PDQ until I could flip the boat and remove el snakeo. I'm not afraid of them until they try to touch me. hahaha! </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">We arrived around 6 and put in. There is NOT a boat ramp above the dam. When you pull in at the dam, there's a 'river access' road off to the right near the bathroom. That goes below the dam. Above the dam, there's AMPLE parking and a spot to upload tiny boats and a very narrow and steep rock ramp that can accommodate 1-2 boats at a time. </span></div>
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The bats did not emerge in a Scooby Dooesque swirl, but in twos and threes until it was almost too dark to see.<br />People who had been there before were bitterly disappointed, but I thought it was really cool the way they dipped and swept right next to the boats and our heads. I've seen the bats emerge at Sauta in a wave that was terrifying and I've seen them trickle out nearly unnoticed. It happens. I don't know what the difference is.</div>
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Matt had the day off for the 4th and so we woke up at his usual time and instead of going to work, we went kayaking! </div>
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We went to Short Creek since I have been and he hasn't.</div>
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We arrived by 7, so we piddled around and stopped several times to look at things and get out and walk around. </div>
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Look through the gap in the trees, it's a heron!</div>
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We came bustin out of the...um...rocky streambed to see the creek continuing upstream.</div>
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There was a pretty little set of cascades, I'd like to go back when we can secure the boats better and explore!</div>
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We paddled up the right side of the island and surfed, paddling against the current. Until I realized my arms were tired and I still had 3 miles to get back to the van! Oops...</div>
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I have pulled 20 lines and lures at LEAST off of sycamores in the past month.</div>
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Hopped out to check out this nice, chilly side stream.</div>
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That mud STANK. It was, I don't want to know. Maybe fish poop.</div>
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I just got my starter replaced so the van actually started, which was becoming kind of a mental game of roulette any time I turned the key. Turns out, you can jump-start a car with a failing starter for a LONG ASS time before someone realizes it might not be a battery issue.</div>
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Remember <a href="http://roamschool.blogspot.com/2017/07/its-too-hot-lets-go-somewhere.html" target="_blank">a whole year ago</a> when the van would not start and the kids and I had to hitchhike for help? Yeah. That wasn't the battery, either. Grrrrr</div>
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A WHOLE YEAR!</div>
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Anyway, the good news is that with my new $300 a pop totally unwanted subscription to the random part of the month club, I am slowly over the course of this year, replacing my old van with a brand new one! 2006 is the new 2018!</div>
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I love my van, but Matt says it's time to start looking for the next adventuremobile.</div>
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I say he's crazy, that van has YEARS of life left.</div>
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Though something a little easier to get the yaks on might be nice...the van is very tall, lifting 44 pounds over my head after paddling is not getting easier. :/</div>
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Speaking of 44, I will be that myself later this month! :o</div>
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The put in is just past an abandoned church (Flint Primitive Baptist) off Ryland Pike on Everett Road. There's room to park there as well. Go PAST the church, the lot and put in are on the other side of the fence. I have read reports that sound like people are parking at the church itself. </div>
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We only got to the top end of Hays before we had to take out, making it a 13 mile trip instead of a 15 mile trip.<br />
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A storm came up out of nowhere-it wasn't on the radar at all and even after we heard thunder, there was nothing.<br />
About 20 minutes later, it was POURING and still thundering. We were paddling SO hard, we were 10 miles in before the weather turned. We did the first 5 miles in 2 hours, we did the last 3 in less than one hour.<br />
The lightning didn't start until the very end, but the water flow had picked up and it made navigation trickier. I was glad to get off the water, I hit that take out, jumped out of the yak and dragged it up the half tube and was standing on my thick rubber mat away from trees before Matt was even off the water. I was not keen on being zapped! Or on saving my husband, it appears. hahahaha! <br />
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Still, until the weather changed, it was a great trip!<br />
My one major complaint is that there is a split in the river at the NACK. One way-the way we went-goes to a log jam we had to get out and drag the boats over. The other way I assume goes around the jam, but the signs are AT the junction. As fast as the water was going, we were past it before we read them and even then we assumed it was to sign the take out, like 'turn here if you parked at the NACK'.<br />
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So just be aware of that and look on the map if that stretch is in your plans.<br />
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It's well worth the trip, <a href="https://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv?03575100" target="_blank">check water levels</a>, you want that "gage height, feet" chart to be between 8 and 9 feet. Anything lower and you will drag. Anything higher and you need to have some real whitewater experience. Below the NACK, there's zero maintenance, so there's the risk of being pulled sideways along a submerged tree and then the force of the water pushing your boat UNDER the tree and sometimes keeping it there. This is called a strainer and they can be deadly.<br />
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Another hazard along the way were trees across the width of the river, but 3 or so feet above the water level, allowing for ducking under. In very fast water, this is a good way to knock the upper portion of your own head off or just get a really good scrape along exposed areas.<br />
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Another thing to watch for is a dimple in the moving water that indicates a rock in shallow water and more likely a stob (the end of a poky branch) in deeper water. Hitting this head-on can flip your boat, or turn it sharply and veer you off course and into the bank or a pile of trees or another paddler. Avoid. It won't take long to be able to read the water and figure out what's an obstacle just under the surface and what's fun and fast water.<br />
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A final hazard to watch for are trees dangling in the water, trunks up and visible, limbs hanging in the water. These are called sifters. One of these we went under turned out to be COVERED in poison ivy and it raked us across the arms and face. Others can have branches that reach the bottom of the water and come up covered in mud, or that get trapped and don't come free at all and slamming into a web of leaves isn't fun. Any time it can be avoided, paddle away. If it can't, paddle backward until your boat is slowed down enough to have some control. Plus, spiders and ticks hang out on these branches. :/<br />
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The Flint in this stretch is a series of mostly mild riffles, a few faster drops, a TON of downed trees, long stretches of flat paddling, and lots of gravel bars. Toward the end of this run are islands galore and picking your way around can be tedious if it's pouring rain. Otherwise, I am sure it's really fun.<br />
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For anyone hesitant to take on the full distance, put in a Ryland and take out at the NACK. <a href="http://www.nacktrips.com/" target="_blank">Call them</a> and find out the details. They keep that stretch pretty clear of obstacles and it's a fun stretch, too.<br />
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Next time, I will put in above Ryland and paddle to that take out, and I want to finish the Flint and go all the way to Ditto Landing. There are 4-5 full day trips to be had on this river and overnight camping is allowed along the stretch we did. I am unsure about the rest of it. Maybe if you put on in the afternoon and then got out before noon the next day. Even with stops, it's a 6-hour stretch. Not really overnight territory.<br />
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With the 8 miles we did Saturday and 13 on Monday, that puts me at 62 miles of paddling in a month. Not bad for a fairly sedentary summer. It's HOT! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-36971419128507991702018-06-28T08:02:00.000-05:002018-06-28T08:02:27.740-05:00Conasauga River Snorkel Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">Wednesday, Ben and I went back to Sharp Ford and headed out to circumnavigate the big island there. To get to it, go under the bridge from the ramp, around the bend the channel splits 3 ways. The far right is Cotaco Creek and you can paddle up that for miles. The left two channels are the ends of a 3.5-mile loop around one large and some small islands. If you keep the 'land' to the left (going in the first channel) you'll loop the whole thing without any trouble. We did this in a couple of hours but given more time (oh, the blazing sun!, it was too hot by 10!) there are lots of little coves and islands to skirt around and explore.</span><br />The area that forms the loop is called Grindle Hole.<br style="text-align: start;" /><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">Paddle back to the junction, take the way you came in back to the bridge. Easy Peasy. </span></div>
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======<br /><br />Wednesday evening, I went back out for a 5.5 miler with Matt, Gina, Kimberly, and Al<br /><br />We were at Limestone Bay, launched from Arrowhead Landing at Moorseville</div>
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It's ANOTHER kayaking post!</div>
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And two new places!</div>
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The first is Sharp Ford, off River Road in Morgan County. This joins the TN one way and Cotaco Creek another. It's TVA owned.</div>
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This is a great spot. The parking area and launch are right off a low traffic road, the waterway winds and opens into coves and secondary creeks which provides for lots of exploring, and upstream from the river, there are plenty of submerged logs to slow or dissuade motor boaters from flying through.</div>
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The major drawback when we went was the mosquitoes! Holy cow, there were hundreds AND I GOT A TICK.</div>
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I have a friend who <a href="https://www.facebook.com/leafoflifebotanicals/" target="_blank">makes my repellent</a> and it works fine, it's just in a coconut oil base, so it's oily. And the bottle I had it in doesn't handle the thicker oil very well, instead of spraying out in a mist, it sort of does a hock tooey thing like spitting out a gob of tobaccy. So the application of said repellent was an ordeal that left me greasy and made my paddle slippy and it wasn't the best day of my life on the water. Plus once it tooeyed into my ear hole, which I haven't yet recovered from emotionally.</div>
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As Matt was loading his boat, I wandered off up a little creek across from the launch. It went into a shallow swampy area with loads of cattails, reeds, lilies, and muck.</div>
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It was getting dark and I convinced myself that spot over there in the cattails that is mashed down was from the giant gator that had launched just ahead of me entering the area.</div>
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After I paddled out to the main channel again, a carp flipped by the boat and I nearly came unglued. I have some serious issues to work through involving my fear of the water (or rather what is in the water).</div>
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There were 2 things I really liked about this place. One, I found an island that I was enamored with immediately, it was love at first site. Later, I found out TVA allows for LNT camping on their islands and that started a whole new level of brain frenzy.</div>
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The second thing was the sheer level of water beetles that were swimming around ahead of my boat. They were zooming around in all directions like fireworks shooting off the bow.</div>
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It's sad to see the people of Hartselle think of the water as a great place to chuck their trash. When we go back, we will bring trash bags. I've done over 30 miles in different areas and we have seen the occasional 20 oz soda bottle bob past and picked those up to drop at the recycling bin. This place is hundreds of times worse. It would take a barge to clean up all that trash.</div>
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I liked this-a new thing we saw on this stretch. It's several hundred tiny fish schooling. They stay close to the surface and will turn and go the other way all in a wave, making the water splash. They were all along this section.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-72688759170491760142018-06-08T17:22:00.000-05:002018-06-08T17:22:20.806-05:00All I Do These DaysWell, I finally found a physically challenging activity that I enjoy that involves sitting and no hills. Why didn't I get a kayak years ago? I think I am equally as excited about all the gear I have for backpacking that is too heavy to take backpacking. Now I can take it Boatpacking. Kayak Kamping? Either way, it's on my list!<br />
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According to fitday, kayaking burns around 220 calories per mile. I finished mile 20 last night!<br />
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In kayak news, I have ordered a variety of things to make travel safer/easier like cross bars for the van roof and 2 sets of J cradles to hold the boats and 2 sets of loops to attach to the van to tie off the bow and stern to. I feel like I have learned SO much in the past 2 weeks, from how to navigate open water with other boats to how to hold a paddle to avoid blisters (well...mostly). And I've learned quite a bit just piddling around in my boat trying different ways to paddle and turn.<br />
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As with anything new I come across, the vocabulary has been fun to learn like the difference between a skeg and a rudder. Acting like Disney-esque pirates with Matt and yelling starboard and port, naming our boats, discussing at length the process to train a parrot and/or monkey to ride with us.<br />
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But mostly, I just like paddling around and exploring the numerous coves and side creeks that flow into the backwaters of the Tennessee River. We won't run out of places for a long time!<br />
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These are pics from areas around Wheeler-going out and returning to either Hickory Hills boat launch or Arrowhead Landing.<br /><br />From Hickory Hills, if the water is high enough, head to the right after launching. There's a wide, shallow opening that cuts through and comes out nearly directly across from Point Mallard. If you keep the island to your left and paddle all the way around it, you'll come out in the backwaters where the Flint Creek Trail is at Wheeler. Cross that-keep in mind that inside the red buoys is the main channel and kayaks are VERY LOW and HARD TO SEE, so scoot across that because people in boats go wide open around those turns. You'll have your run of the rest of the open water and can go all the way down to the bridges on the trail! <br /><br />The way back to the launch is at the opposite end of the open water from the bridges and in full green, it's hard to see from far off! Paddle around next to the shoreline and there are a couple more little islands to weave around if you like. Nearly at the far north end, there is a shallow cut through that comes out diagonally across from the launch. If the water is low, you'll have to go all the way to the very end of the open area and use the main channel. Facing toward Point Mallard, it's on the right side, watch for boats zooming through and keep track of where they are going. Keep close to the shore and keep your head on a swivel if you have to use the big boat channel!!<br /><br />The track around the island and back to the launch is 3.5 miles. Maybe this will help!!<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1aPw4nCKnF1LfNJTUN_OLO-0bvLqH7MV3">https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1aPw4nCKnF1LfNJTUN_OLO-0bvLqH7MV3</a><br /><br />Our trip tracked above was over 4 miles because I like to see what's around the bend.<br />
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Chan and I went out one afternoon to look for afternoon hammock hang sites on some of the islands. <br /><br />
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I went under a tree that was crossing an inlet creek and pushed up a branch to get past it.<br />The branch was in the water and unknown to me, was in full leaf.<br />The leaves had been laying on the bottom of this very mucky little side creek long enough to be slimy and smelly. The entire branch raked over my kayak and me, leaving us both covered in muck and stink! <br />My boat was full of pine needles, cones, twigs, leaves, wet slime, dead mayflies, mayfly husks, and later, river water from where I attempted to wash the worst of it off.<br /><br />I was loving it! </div>
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I named my little boat Spero.<br />It's Latin (and Italian) for I hope, it's also the word for imagine.<br />Matt named his boat Mischief.<br />I ordered the name off Etsy for $2 delivered. :) </div>
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<span id="goog_180192877"></span><span id="goog_180192878"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-60682341198896027892018-05-28T21:29:00.001-05:002018-05-28T21:29:44.793-05:00Yak AttackWell, we FINALLY bought a couple kayaks. I have no idea why it took us so long, but it did. And now we have 2 and I am thrilled! <br /><br />We still need some stuff, most notably a carrier for them. Right now I am hauling them laying on a blanket tarp strapped to the roof rack rails. That's not the perfect solution I had envisioned. They bounce a little in the wind and tend to move enough that when we loosen the strap, they slide off the side of the van instead of waiting to be pulled off the back. So we need a better solution. I only have rails, I don't have crossbars, so those J-hooks for the kayak to lean against will not work. I'm open to suggestions.<br /><br />For our maiden voyage, we went to Wheeler and put in at one of the many boat ramps they have. We paddled around for a couple of hours, then headed for home when the clouds started gathering. <br /><br />The next day, Gina asked if we wanted to go again, and we did. We met back up at the same spot because she had stalked me and saw us the day before. That made it easier to plan anyway.<br /><br />We arrived only barely late (Matt can only get to work on time, everything else-time is a suggestion.) <br /><br />Gina was already there and had bought...the exact same kayak we had and in the exact same color. STALKER. <br /><br />Or, it might have been the really good kayak sales going on for Memorial Day. 3 other friends also got 'yaks this past weekend. No clue if they are as awesome as ours, but I'll plan a float day soon and scope it out.<br />
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Amanda has been working and back in school and our time together the last few months has been quick texts at 2 a.m., occasional things our kids are at but not one of the other of us, and the infrequent afternoon chat via phone or messenger when she is supposed to be studying. Once, she wrote an entire paper while chatting with me. I think I may have managed to refill my water bottle during that same time frame. </div>
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Katy has been up to her neck in soccer and swimming is about to get started again for both families, and though soccer ended just this past week, tryouts for the next season are tonight! With our older kids getting older, our hang out time has become precious! Alex and Emma are working this summer and so is Elan, Chandler and Ben are looking for jobs and Ben has music 3 times a week, Jake is at work 10 hours a day most days and Rho has already moved out. </div>
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They, along with Gina and kids, all made it to what was supposed to have been Ben's last concert on Tuesday night (he's since been asked to do a solo performance next month and then the director asked him to stay on with the jazz band through the end of the year). I think he did great! Afterward, Gina had to head home (it did run a full hour over...) and our three families went to eat. </div>
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I won't get into THAT fiasco, other than to say that Logan's Roadhouse tried to charge me $10 for a GRILLED CHEESE sandwich and a handful of soggy, cold fries. They said they had no idea how to ring it up. IT'S ON THE MENU. I didn't make up a newfangled food, I just wasn't very hungry and it was after 9, a burger sounded about the same as eating cement and I didn't want to risk whatever might pass as a salad the last 45 minutes the place was open. Anyway, some 30 minutes later, after they changed my ticket from 'club sandwich' to 'fried pickles', we left. I won't be back. It involved 3 of the wait staff AND the manager and was just short of rocket science to not charge $10 for 2 pieces of bread and a slice of cheese. It wasn't even buttered. Birdie ate the SAME THING and it was $5. And that included his drink.</div>
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We enjoyed hanging out so much (despite the billing incompetence) that weekend plans were quickly changed around and Katy and family opted to camp on the lake and we met up Saturday for a couple miles of hiking topped off with a couple of hours of hanging in hammocks, chatting and snoozing topped off with dinner at a Mexican place that was super yummy. A multitude of woes can be remedied with hot cheese dip. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Sunday, we met up at Amanda's and swam for a long time, then Sammy's mom and dad took us all out on the pontoon near sunset, a thing I always enjoy. Back at the house, we ate dip-based snacks and grilled and had a very eclectic variety of things. Hot dogs and sausages, pilaf, baked beans, mac and beef... Everything was great, seasoned with copious amounts of earlier sun and lake water and shoveled in between loud board games, dancing children, dads sipping whiskey and talking music, moms plotting the next gathering, dogs splayed all over the deck. Mosquitoes attacking everyone but me...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of 6 bears we saw the first day</td></tr>
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Hike to Rainbow Falls off Roaring Fork Motor Trail <br />2.7 miles one way, elevation gain of 1700 feet</div>
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Drive to Sugarlands Visitor Center and walk on the nature trail there:</div>
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We planned to hike, but Matt had to head home at a certain time and we were caught in a bear jam upon entering the loop. It took nearly 2 hours to go the first 3 miles of the loop.<br />A second, smaller one caught us on the other side going back out. So we spent about 5 hours at Cades Cove, most of it in the van. :/<br />
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<br />Chandler's favorite thing in the mountains are the balds. We try to get to a new one on each visit.</div>
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My goal for the year has been a paltry 50 miles a month. I thought I would knock that out easily. So far, not the case, though April was the first month I utterly failed.</div>
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I got half my miles on the Cumberland Island trip between walking and biking on the island and then walking around at the springs and Disney Springs, it was easily 25 miles total.</div>
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I only walked about 8 miles before the island, so that left me with 17 miles to cover the last week of the month.</div>
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Matt and I knocked out 5 whole entire miles at the track (not all in one go though). Gina and I did 8 on the Honeycomb trail. So...I ended the month 5 miles shy of my goal</div>
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Met Amanda and walked 5+ miles at Duck River the weekend before the trip. We got further out than I realized and ended up having to send Matt and Ben running back to the car to get to a community concert we had planned to see. We totally missed it but were reunited at the Mexican place afterward, so it wasn't a tragedy.</div>
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It was Dogwood Winter that day and QUITE chilly!</div>
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That's a cold snap that happens annually around the time the dogwoods reach full bloom.</div>
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I spotted blackberry starting to bloom and remembered there's Blackberry Winter still left. </div>
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The next week, the oak trees started in. Matt and I clogged up PDQ and I had to double my allergy meds. Oak hits us both like a mule kick. But not the kids. To add to that, he and I both were in glasses by middle school. The kids all have perfect vision. But they all three needed braces, so there's that.</div>
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The stretch under the power lines is not pretty.</div>
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It seems to be being used to dump stuff like mulch and dirt. The piles skirt the trail and even though this is the 6th time I have walked here, I still had a few spots where I was unsure if we might have passed the Honeycomb Trail turnoff.</div>
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The trail squeezes behind that pile of mulch (and...cement chunks) right at the base of the hill. </div>
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This is the next tricky spot, after passing above the campground and going back down the other side, the trail crosses a wide, very flat and usually very muddy spot. Another trail meets up from the left, the HT goes to the right. Within a minute or so, there's this junction. Off to the left is blazed, straight is not.</div>
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The trail to the left circles Thompson Reservoir and becomes the trail that meets up at the muddy spot.</div>
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Taking this adds a mile, though not a hard one. Or you could just walk it, retrace the path to the parking area and have a pretty easy 2-mile walk done. </div>
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Little guy!</div>
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The hill at Fern Gully. It's all green now!</div>
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The big tree by the water just before the long climb</div>
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Rare panting shot, she's not a 'smiler'</div>
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The next day we got up and drove to our last spot, camping near Apopka!</div>
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We stopped for what turned out to be four HOURS to get the power steering pump replaced. It was crappy since on the road repairs are always stressful, but being able to steer was AWESOME!</div>
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I had a really happy kid.</div>
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Super long and not exciting drive back home. I drove a while, Gina drove a while, I drove the last stretch. It took 10.5 hours to get back.</div>
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Chan and I have been planning to join a women's group on Cumberland Island for months! It was first set in October and got moved after Irma demolished the road (via debris) and the island was shut down for 2 months while they cleared it.<br /><br />Shelly, our fearless leader, persevered and got us back on the schedule for April. We needed a LOT of camping space! Sign-ups had closed weeks ago, but there was a last-minute cancelation. Gina had a last-minute open schedule (after juggling one family illness after another) and a last-second slot opened from about 3 in the afternoon until midnight the day before the trip and she nabbed it! I had not seen her in 6 months!</div>
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<br />We arrived too late in the day to do much, but we wandered the grounds and checked out the amenities. Chandler jumped on the bounce pillow, we checked out the pool and playground, walked around the perimeter of the grounds and played ball racker.</div>
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One has been turned into the restrooms for the tour and another is occupied by Carol Ruckdeschel, who bought the house 35 years ago and is a self-taught naturalist. She is basically a more awesome version of what I want to be when I grow up. Check her out.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595932810104905553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9038540233828904764.post-45431269187434290112018-03-28T17:43:00.001-05:002018-03-28T17:43:30.881-05:00Nearly Did It<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I am trying to walk 50 miles a month, 12 miles a week. This morning, I had 4 miles to go, so we headed out to hike.</div>
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My favorite section, I call it Fern Gully. Because I lack imagination.</div>
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Fire pink and wood sorrel (oxalis)</div>
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The hike, along the exact route I always take, was only 7.9 miles today.</div>
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On Friday, Ben has 2.5 hours at band so I went to walk at the park and it was too busy. Sometimes I am okay with other people, sometimes I am not. It's been an issue for my whole adult life. Today was just not a good 'other people' day.</div>
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So I decided to go get my oil changed and maintenance stuff done on the van, but when I called Beth they could not get me in until afternoon. So, I drove out to Hurricane Creek Park and there was only one car in the lot! I dressed like a serial killer (black hoodie is the Universal 'stay back' upper clothingwear) anyway and put in my earbuds and head wrap, grabbed my poles and camera, and headed down the trail.</div>
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I went in via the stairs, down and crossed the creek, went down to the bottom on the high trail and climbed back out, walked back to the office and turned and went down the Grandfather trail, followed the creek, and climbed back up the stairs. I did not stop on the climbs, though I was pretty sure I was going to keel over coming up the stairs.<br /><br />It sounds impressive/long, but it was just over a mile.</div>
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I'm ready to keep pushing, to keep feeling stronger, those endorphins are no joke. I better about myself than I have in a long time.</div>
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The Sinks trail at Monte Sano state park is famous for bluebells in the spring. I have seen whole islands at Bankhead covered in them, so seeing a few thousand in one area isn't unique to the park, but there is something about seeing so many flanking a trail that is visually appealing the way a solid mass isn't somehow. I blame Jane Austen. hahaha</div>
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We did a quick mile at the Wildflower Trail, off Cleermont, first.</div>
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Went Sunday to do a quick 2-mile hike with Matt at Bankhead. He had band practice that night and it was around 11 before we actually got going. So we parked on one of the many blocked off dirt roads south of the Sipsey boundary and started walking toward what I thought was a set a falls, according to a blog from 5 years ago that I stumbled across several months back and could not find again. </div>
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The road became a trail within 50 yards and not long after that, became very clogged with downed trees and blackberry canes before opening back up again. We followed that about a mile and it ran into another road. We followed that and soon decided the falls I was looking for were not going to appear. Then Matt decided we could look for a geocache instead, so we took off down another blocked-off road to hunt for the cache.</div>
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We reached the top of a canyon, I guessed it was 70 feet, but it's probably closer to 50.</div>
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If it were warmer, the bathtub at the top would be fun to sit in! It has a bench seat and Jacuzzi jets! Well, one anyway.</div>
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Also, there is a twig in my hair from all of the stuff we pushed through. No trail means loads of getting through brushy patches.</div>
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Those Oboz. UGH. I thought I was just walking a couple of miles and they are fine for that distance.</div>
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So our 2 miles went to well over 10.</div>
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My toes were KILLING me. Totally numb yet on fire. They don't come anywhere near touching the inside of the toebox. I was wearing Point 6 wool socks.</div>
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If you want one, hit up <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myerstek/" target="_blank">this guy</a>.<br />
He calls it a gear loft.</td></tr>
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This may be my favorite part of Bankhead. Those jagged, mossy cliffs. <br />(found out a couple days later that algae are what gives the woods and rocks their green glow!)</div>
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We veered away from the river at this point. It was getting closer and closer to full-on dark and while the river would take us to the road we were parked off of, the constant navigating fallen trees and getting across the many small creek canyons was eating up our time.</div>
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We went up and up and UP a hill, followed the boundary markers until we hit a road and followed that back to the gravel road and followed THAT back to the trail that we were parked on the other end of. Whew.</div>
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And finally, pitch black. We did not have good lights, thinking we would be back home hours before the sun was going to set. That's been remedied. It will be a long time before we head out without flashlights AND headlamps! It was extra dark because of heavy cloud cover. We had been able to get enough signal to let the kids know not to send for help-we were just running late! That made me feel MUCH better.</div>
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We got off the trail several times, it was not fun. There was so much brush and the trail closer to where we parked was really overgrown and there were more than a few mud patches, briar patches, and small ankle-cracking holes. We finally got out my phone to try to follow the line on my hiking tracker app! It worked and we made it to where the path opened up again just a few minutes from our parking spot and walked the rest of the way with no drama, mostly just talking about how many Taco Bell based items we were going to consume as soon as we got to Moulton! </div>
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Turns out, one each. But we talked a good game.</div>
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And we had the fries, so I guess that makes two each. But not the ten 'powerbowl steak burritos' Matt planned on. Or the entire 'mostly just cheese' pizza I envisioned (and that Taco Bell does not even sell). I crave butter when I hike. So cheesy bread slathered in garlic butter features heavily in my fantasies. I had a black bean burrito.</div>
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In all, a great day. Wish we had planned a bit better though and had good lights, or just headed back toward the car 20 minutes sooner. Though I spent at least that long stopping and messing with my shoe, trying to make it more bearable. So, I wish I had worn my Chacos too.</div>
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What we got right: map, compass, GPS, phones, first aid, rain gear, fire stuff, extra food, emergency tarp tent, extra warm layer each, a way to treat water, small hammocks-if we had to spend the night, we would have been fairly comfortable (temp wise anyway). Being able to stay off the ground with the hammocks, put a layer of loose leaves under us to keep down drafts and the tarp over us to keep us dry...bundled up, fed and hydrated, a little fire going...we'd be better off than many people who get caught out after dark in the forest.</div>
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What we got wrong: underestimating the time it would take to navigate 4 miles of wilderness and not having adequate light. Also, not keeping ourselves as hydrated as we should have. I think stopping to drink and have a good snack once it got dark and we had to slow way down to navigate would have upped our morale. We were hungry and thirsty once we got to the car and we had the means to fix that. </div>
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So, lessons learned. It's all an experience. At no point were we 'lost', we had a map and compass as well as the car's location waypointed on the GPS and I had a track log of the entire hike running on my phone. It was really that last bit when we were so close but were getting slowed by the lack of trail and the prolific sawbriars that was so crappy.</div>
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Matt said afterward that he really enjoyed the hike, but needed marked trails for the next little while. hahaha!<br />
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