[at-l] SORUCK trail hike report, for Mags

[lpatton at mailer.fsu.edu (Linda Patton)]

Mags wrote:
> Sometimes I really wonder if some people on this list,
> as one person asked, actually do anything ourdoor related. 

Poor Mags, desparate for someone else to write about the
outdoors, and doing a great job of it himself.  Well, here's
a teeny-tiny something.

	SORUCK 2004 was held at a summer camp in NW SC.  The camp has
a short (~2 mi.?) trail starting near the kitchen door and winding
around to the east and then north and then west and ending on the
road a few tenths of a mile outside the front gate of the camp.
	I hiked it twice that weekend, first meandering along with
Ginny Owen at the tail end of a maintenance group.  That was fun.
Talk and clip, talk and clip.  We took our own sweet time and were
the last ones back at camp.  I think Jim was ready to send out the
Mounties!  Second time was by myself the day after most people had
left.  
	There's a steep uphill for a short time, headed east along
an old road.  Then a sharp left to the north, heading into the woods.
The trail wanders back and forth downhill til it crosses a nice little
stream--the same stream that flows through the camp, I assume.  Then
back uphill and onto another old road.  Almost the entire trail is on
old roads, some narrower and more grown-in than others.  Where the 
trail takes another sharp left turn and heads west, there's a nice
little waterfall up the road to the right, which I failed to notice
when on the work hike.  There are a couple more waterfalls along the
way, and other old roads branch off here and there (wish I'd had time
to explore them).  Towards the end, there's a steep downhill, with
piles of leaves underfoot.  It was fun to kick them up like kids do.
Well, I guess I'm a 60+ kid, what can I say.  Then the road walk back
to camp goes along by a few private cabins, and the road's edges are
lined with thick pine needles for cushy walking.  It was nice hiking
weather, about 50 degrees as I recall.  Happy now, Mags? ;-)
	~~eArThworm

Linda L. Patton, Reference Librarian, Strozier Library, Florida State Univ.
      Tallahassee, FL 32306-2047 (850)644-5019 lpatton@mailer.fsu.edu
          "A world without wilderness is a cage." -- David Brower