I‘m happy  to announce that I have scheduled the next three hiking club outings, along with the service day project canceled in the fall due to rain.

The March hiking club event will be at the Vickery Creek Trail in Roswell, where we will combine the Outdoor Ethics service project with a nice hike followed by an optional picnic lunch. I will be posting a sign up for this hike so I can get a reasonable attendance estimate for the volunteer coordinator at the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area.

The April hike will be at Arabia Mountain, where we’ll do the 2-mile Rock Trail and Forest Loop.

And in May, we’ll head over to Cobb County to hike the 1.35-mile (2 miles on your scout’s passport) Environmental Trail at the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield.

Follow the links in the text above to the event pages for each of these events, where you’ll find full details.

As always, these plans could change depending on trail conditions, weather etc.

Summer hikes will be announced soon, but are likely to be the Island Ford Trail or the Sope Creek Trail, Sweetwater Creek State Park’s Red Trail and a more challenging  (but still totally doable) 3.5-mile hike of the Sawnee Mountain Preserve’s Indian Seats Trail in Forsyth County. These will be in addition to the traditional pack summertime events.

This fall, I’m planning on putting the Songbird and Woodland Trails at Stone Mountain back on our list for the September hike (while dodging Yellow Daisy!!!). We’ll make a tradition of doing the Stone Mountain walk up trail in the fall as well, but probably November this year, with October held open for now for a potential hike during our campout.

I’ll try to get those hikes published by mid April at the latest.

If you have any trails you’d like to do with the Hiking Club, please drop me a line and let me know!