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

• 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!!

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