It’s Nate’s birthday! It was a rare day where we had nothing scheduled to do. The weather was so nice we decided to go explore a new place to hike, Salamonie River State Forest. It wasn’t long into our hike that we realized the online map of the property wasn’t going to be much help. There were more trails in person than there were on the map and we quickly didn’t know where we were or where to go. We did find one waterfall early.
There were also a few small creeks crossings which like waterfalls are always fun.
After about a mile of walking, we found the horseman’s campground. All the trails are also bridle trails so we saw lots of horses today. We ate lunch at a picnic table but better yet, there were maps at the check-in station.
Evelyn decided after lunch she wanted to wear my daypack.
With a more detailed map in hand, hiking was much more relaxed.
Jameson tried the daypack too. After a little while though he started to tire of walking and then Evelyn slid in some mud and got her shoe soaked. Nate and I were hoping we could hike another loop and maybe catch a few more waterfalls, but decided it was better to make our way back to the car. In total we hiked 3.4 miles. It will be fun to return another time once the leaves are back.
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