Hiking Trail Logs!!

• Government Canyon Hike  This is my first nature hike since Boy Scouts almost 40 years ago!!  Government Canyon is large and beautiful, just about 20 miles west of San Antonio, TX. Wow, what beautiful hill country!!
• Pedernales Falls Hike  OK, so this was more of a walk!!
• Enchanted Rock Hike   This was my first hike and campout in years. I didn't bring my camera and missed some great pics. I had Ticks, my puppy on the trail with me.
• Palo Duro and the Lighthouse Trail  This is one of the best trails I have taken. I helped cook for the inauguration of Pat O'Brien now President of WTAMU. Pat told me that Canyon TX was named because of the canyon nearby. I had driven in from the East Texas, and down 15 miles from Amarillo.  I hadn't seen any indication of a "canyon" just FLAT ground for the last 160 miles!! Palo Duro is the second largest canyon in the US, and has gotta be Texas's best kept secret.
• Thousand Palms Oasis Hike This is the first of 4 hikes from my Palm Springs, CA  Dec. 2006 vacation. It was easy, fun and very beautiful. Plus right in the middle of the Palm Valley desert.
• Tahquitz Canyon Hike The next day we took a fantastic hike into the "spirited" Tahquitz Canyon. It is supposedly haunted by an soul eating Cahuilla Indian shaman named Tahquitz. Check it out, I think I caught a pic of him!
• Little San Bernardino Mountains Hike This was the toughest of them all (So FAR), only a little more than 4 miles up and back, BUTTTT it was a climb of over 1,100 ft in elevation!! PAGE 2 covers the trail down, AND we found a bobcat skull!
• Painted Canyon Hike and the Ladder Trail Log I thought I had seen it all, WOW, if you are a hiker and are in  Southern California, ya gotta do this. This was such a great hike, I had to break it down into two pages. 
• When you think you have reached the top, well, Sh_t Happens!!.....Soooo, if ya wanta know, Just check it out!! Painted Canyon  Part Deaux
• Thousand Trails Medina Lake Camp Ground Trail Log This is a private preserve, but at least it was a beautiful day and practice hike for the week to come!
• I'm Back!!! Enchanted Rock Loop Trail Revisited, and this time with a camera (my Treo 700s) and my Garmin GPSMAP 76CSx, So this time I did Enchanted Rock right!!
• Enchanted Rock Loop Trail Revisited Part Deaux !!!! More pics and commentary from this beautiful location!!
• Wild Horse Creek and The Old Entrance Road Trails, Garner Texas State Park, OK so this was more like a walk rather than a hike! But I have incorporated a map from my Garmin GPSMAP 76CSx.
• Palo Duro Canyon and the Lighthouse Trail Revisited,  COOOOOL, i am back at WTAMU and this time with Ticks and Ann!
• Fort Jackson and Bayou Mardi Gras, The Civil War defense fort along the Mississippi River.

• Bayou Coquille and Kenta Canal Trail Log  This is the best kept secret in the New Orleans Area.  Why pay to see alligators from a boat, when you can walk within 6 feet of them!!! WOW, alligators, turtles, snakes, fish, squirrels, blue herons and tons of other wild life, all on the trail.
• Bayou Coquille and Kenta Canal Trail Log, Part Deaux, This is all about the Kenta Canal and beau coup alligators! Up close and personal.
• Pecan Grove, Ring Levee Trail and the Wood Duck Trails , These are all located near the Environmental Education Complex in the Pecan Grove Parking Lot.
• Bayou Coquille and Kenta Canal Trails Revisited  It surprised me that this hike was soooo different from my hike in May!! There is soooooo much to see every time you walk the walk!!!!!
• Pecan Grove, Ring Levee and Wood Duck Trail Revisited! The decking is FIXED!!
• Pecan Grove, Plantation Trail (Loops A&B) This is the best trail for solitude and to experience wildlife! We saw a Bald Eagle!!!! And ya gotta see our pic of a snake eating a frog!!
• Visitor's Center Trail Wow! in just a quarter of a mile SOOOOO much to see. The "Trail" is totally accessible to wheel chairs and baby strollers. And let's not forget that we saw a 5 ft alligator just inches from the deck!
• Twin Canal Trail The horseflies were out in force, we needed our boots! SEE, I told ya that you should get them for Jean Lafitte hikes!
•  Bayou Coquille and Kenta Canal Trails Revisited in the Winter! (January 2, 2010)
• The Palmetto Trail (January 3, 2010) The trail has been closed since "K", but now it is reopened.
• NEW!!
• Jean Lafitte Nature Study Park Trail.  ( February 21, 2010)  This park is built and maintained by the Town of Jean Lafitte and NOT part of the National Park. 

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