by Melanie McManus | Apr 22, 2025 | North Country Trail 2017 – Still Hiking, Trail Journals
Today’s trek from the Scioto Trail State Park Forest Headquarters to the South Ridge Road Trailhead was one for the books. But aren’t they often epic?! Ed and I got to Ohio last night after a long drive from Wisconsin. We were up bright and early to meet trail angel...
by Melanie McManus | Apr 23, 2025 | North Country Trail 2017 – Still Hiking, Trail Journals
Since we camped at the trailhead last night, we left one car there and drove to Pretty Run / Macedonia Church. Byron Guy met us there, who is the Old Man’s Cave section supervisor. He showed us where we could camp at night and other things. Then we started off, hiking...
by Melanie McManus | Apr 24, 2025 | North Country Trail 2017 – Still Hiking, Trail Journals
This morning we planned to drop cars at one of the Old Man’s Cave parking lots (the one at a rappelling area) and, again, hike backwards. But in the middle of the night I realized we had no cell service here, so we didn’t know the route to that Old Man’s Cave parking...
by Melanie McManus | Apr 25, 2025 | North Country Trail 2017 – Still Hiking, Trail Journals
Today’s hike to the Park and Ride outside Endeavor was mostly lovely. After our grueling day yesterday, we slept in until 7 a.m. We also decided not to hike our planned itinerary of 16.2 miles (26.1 km) and instead hike 14.5 miles (23.3 km). We were tired from...
by Melanie McManus | Apr 26, 2025 | North Country Trail 2017 – Still Hiking, Trail Journals
Today’s trek to Boch Hollow State Nature Preserve was pretty nice! Since we decided to shorten our days due to the hills, we slept in a bit and hit the trail by 9:30 a.m. First up was a road walk from the Park and Ride through a portion of Enterprise. Heading out of...
