State of Wilderness

Author: keely

  • Buescher State Park: Patterns of Place and People

    It was the first Saturday morning of the year, and I was sitting on a small mound of dirt, just to the right of a tree root.  I was watching the water slowly lap at the edge of the lake, and contemplating what it really meant to know a place.  I wondered if the park…

  • 2015: To Sum, and What’s to Come

    Last Christmas, my mom gave me this journal in the above photo, and it turned out to be my favorite item of the entire year.  I carried that with me during all my outdoor adventures and checked off all the birds I saw during the year on the master list in the back, as well…

  • W.G. Jones: Sweetleaf Nature Trail

    We’ve had quite a few walks in the woods this year, but all seemed to have a sub-text to them. We’re walking in the woods with a group from Hike It Baby, or like the weekend before, with a Meet Up group composed of people with similar interests. We were there to walk, but also…

  • Bastrop State Park: Hike It Baby: Thoughts on Hiking

                                Last weekend, we went camping with the Hike It Baby group at Bastrop State Park.  The focused activity of the day was a planned mid-morning hike along the Red Trail (with a later connection to the Purple and Orange Trails, I…