My wife and I drove out to South Carolina at the end of February for a wedding. The drive involved taking I-70 across Missouri. Having visited Onondaga Cave State Park (south of I-70 and west of St. Louis) (https://backcountrypost.com/threads/onondaga-cave-state-park-missouri.5249/) and being...
I went backpacking to the Missouri Ozarks to hike along the Ozark trail around Goggins Mountain with a with a father and son of the same last name. The fall colors were beautiful but having grown up in the desert I have always found it difficult to get excited about hiking in forests - and we...