{"id":1634,"date":"2024-01-01T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2024-01-01T17:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:31:26","slug":"first-day-hike-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/first-day-hike-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day Hike, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found out about this “first day hike”<\/a> thing just yesterday. Seemed like a Good Idea, and there were lots of these at South Carolina Sate Parks. I picked Calhoun Falls<\/a>, since I hadn’t been there before. And since I hadn’t really done any group hiking, I thought this might be an opportunity sample that.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, it was a very small group, just the Ranger and me. So an even better way to get into this group hiking thing.<\/p>\n

These hikes are generally aimed to accommodate beginners, so this was a pretty easy trail to navigate.
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\n“My” Ranger pointed out things of interest, like this Resurrection Fern<\/a> growing on a tree. These ferns can almost completely dry out and shrivel up, but come to life when water returns (hence the name).
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\nAnd how a lot of these gullies running through the park are the result of poor agricultural practices in past. Nature can fix things, but it takes time.
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\nThe park is on the shore of Lake Russel.
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\nThis little backwater lagoon looked like the sort of place I’d expect to find water fowl or wading birds.
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\nThe day had been mostly overcast, but after a while the clouds began to thin out…
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\n…leading to a lot more blue.
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I actually made three rounds on this little 1.7-mile trail. The first Ranger-led (with just the two of us, I’m not sure who led more), then I went back to pick up my footprints, and then the sun came out and I took that as a cue to keep going.<\/p>\n

Strava link for the solo hike: https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/10475513815<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found out about this “first day hike” thing just yesterday. Seemed like a Good Idea, and there were lots of these at South Carolina Sate Parks. I picked Calhoun Falls, since I hadn’t been there before. And since I hadn’t really done any group hiking, I thought this might be an opportunity sample that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}