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Penhook SIA
The Penhook Special Interest Area is a few miles north of Hector AR and encompasses Penhook Hollow – with its creeks, tall bluffs, and steep terrain creating a very scenic area. The hollow opens onto the Middle Fork of the … Continue reading
Building a Bridge Beside the Buffalo
The Ozark Highlands Trail Association built a 20′ bridge across a gulley for the Middle Buffalo River Trail near the Grinders Ferry trail head. On Nov 14 a small group set the footings and today a larger group – 6 … Continue reading
Moccasin Gap Trails
I’ve spent a couple days now hiking part of the Moccasin Gap Trails. This is a 43-mile system on the west side of AR-7 about 30 minutes north of Russellville. It’s open to equestrians, mountain bikes, and ATVs, in addition … Continue reading
Buffalo River Trail – Dave Manes Bluff to Tyler Bend
I managed to do a little hiking on Wednesday and Thursday before a soggy Thanksgiving weekend, returning to a part of the middle Buffalo River I hadn’t seen since my first visit exactly 2 years ago – the area between … Continue reading
Buffalo River Trail – AR-14 to S Maumee Road
I think it was about a year ago that I first hiked the Buffalo River Trail between highway 14 (Dillard’s Ferry) and South Maumee Road. I was with other people and we had set up a shuttle so it was … Continue reading
Little Blakely Loops
The Little Blakely Loops are about 18 miles of interconnected loops on a peninsula at the eastern end of Lake Ouachita, in the national forest north of the State Park. My previous visit was a wet and foggy New Year’s … Continue reading
Friends of the Ouachita Trail annual meeting
I attended my first annual meeting of the Friends of the Ouachita Trail (FoOT) Saturday in Hot Springs. I’ve been a member for several years, even before I moved to Arkansas, but this was basically the first time I’d met … Continue reading
Buffalo River Trail building – Fall 2015 wrap up
Another trail building season at the Buffalo River is over with no actual building to report. This time it was all maintenance due to the private property and archaeological obstacles that remain. We lopped brush and removed all the fallen … Continue reading
OHTA work weekend
Another work weekend on the OHT with the Ozark Highlands Trail Association. The primary target this time was a bunch of trees on the trail east of the Richland Creek Wilderness between mile markers 141 and 142 – south of … Continue reading
Hurricane Creek Wilderness
We’ve had a couple nice weekends since my trip to Wyoming and I spent them doing trail work on both the Ozark Highlands Trail and the Ouachita Trail. This weekend, however, it was time to kick off the local backpacking … Continue reading
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