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Huntsville State Park
We celebrated New Years Eve weekend at Huntsville State Park, located in (you might guess) Huntsville, Texas, which is about an hour drive north of Houston. This park joined the state park system in 1938, yet much work remained in the park at that time. Most of that work centered around the building and then…
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Book Recommendation: Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv, is a quintessential handbook to the ways that the natural environment impacts children. Over the three hundred so pages of text, Louv makes a case for why nature is important, what the benefits are to not only children but all of us, and how this “frontier” has…
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PAUL BARCLAY STASH: GC67
Last summer on our road trip vacation, we had some specific high-value targets in mind: “grandfather caches”, which is a term cachers use for oldest active caches. Specifically, ones hidden in the first year of geocaching, 2000. The first morning we were in Colorado, we were in pursuit of one of these: Paul Barclay, the…
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W.G Jones Forest: “An Urban Wilderness”
Today we went hiking at W.G. Jones Forest Recreation Area. This park is located off 1488, just east of I-45, north of the The Woodlands, Texas. It offers 1722 acres of multi-use trails for hiking, biking, or horseback riding. Today we were on foot, with our GPS in hand, looking for geocaches. In the past…