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Making our mark

Today was going to be the last sunny day until midweek, and it would have been a shame to waste it inside. I remembered a hike I had intended to take once in the summer, Bluff View at Meramec State park, but didn’t because of the spider webs across the path. Today seemed an ideal […]

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The well-equipped hiker

In the last post, fellow hiking enthusiasts Loren, Doug (who found some snow today), and Joe all recommended poles for hiking; either ski poles or ones designed for trekking. Allan Moult of Leatherwood also suggested last winter that I get trekking poles, especially with the types of hikes I prefer. I’ve had a walking stick that I’ve used for years now, shown […]

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Photography

Pickle Creek

Archive page with comments at Wayback Machine Wednesday I headed south to try out a new hike in the Ozarks. I plan on concentrating on Ozark hikes this winter, ranging out a bit from my usual St. Louis area favorites. I’ve done the Mississippi and Meramec, time for new waters. Pickle Creek is a little-known […]

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There is this little primeval monkey in the back of my mind that beats its tiny hands against my skull

Wednesday I headed south to try out a new hike in the Ozarks. I plan on concentrating on Ozark hikes this winter, ranging out a bit from my usual St. Louis area favorites. I’ve done the Mississippi and Meramec, time for new waters. Pickle Creek is a little known conservation area that’s a pleasant 70 […]

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Kitchen was hacked

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The IT Kitchen was badly hacked. I had thought I had set the user permissions up so that this couldn’t occur, but obviously not. Due to this, the Kitchen is closed, probably permanently. I found the problem that led to the unusability – the siteurl had been changed in the […]