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Another afternoon hike in Seminlole forest on sat, Feb 6th, had a nice long wlk over several trail sections at the south end. We went back to the river from the camp shelter at the start of the Lower Wekia Loop, just wanted to see the river from in the park, cool. We then took the FL trail up to Sand Road and then headed toward Blackwater creek. We deceided to see where the road to the left of Sand Road goes to, it is unmapped but clearly used by hunters.We went back this road for a mile, rea

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Beautiful day for a hike, sunny and cool 47 at 9am and 62-- 5 hours and 11.5 miles later, NICE! We went through the sulfer island trail part way then cut off and went down to the camp area off of loop trail then back up to the north entrance from there. Saw lots of animal signs, deer scrapes, tracks, bear tracks, saw a huge owl, and met some peolpe at Black Water creek that had pictures of a rattle snake on the road, awesome ! Huting in there the next 2 weekends so we will go eleswhere, we may g… Continue

My hiking buddy Pat and I did a hike this morning on the Sulfur Island Trail. It is a linear and loop trail. The first section is a 2.4 mile linear on the FT and then a 3.6 mile loop,blue blaze Sulfur Island Loop, then return on the FT to the North parking where we started.The parking is off of St Rd 44. As you can see on my photos some of the trail is on roads through the forest, but they are mostly shaded and not too long before you are back into the woods. We had hiked the Lower Wekiva Loop t… Continue

On Wednesday we stayed closer to home and Went to Little-Big Econ State Forest. As I am sure you all have heard this is a beautiful hike along the river and is the best in the Orlando area. We saw so much wildlife here also, witch we didn't see much of in Withlacoochee besides birds and armadillos, it was so dry I believe that most of the wildwilfe has moved from the deep forest to be closer to the river there. We were lucky to be able to visit here at this time of the year as it is so green wit… Continue

Well folks here is my first blog on here so please be nice and forgive me for any mistakes. I never have learned to type.
My sister Chris just retired at the end of 2008 so I invited her to visit me in FL in the winter so we would do some hiking. She is from PA and the cold winters give her cabin fever after a while :).
On our first day,3-23-09, we went to Withlacoochee St Forest and hiked the Croom Tract on loops A and C. The weather was great for hiking, low 60's and overcast all day with just… Continue