Adventure Loop Guide

Went out for a hike again today to check out another section of the Adventure Loop. I think I've found a good route from Black Lake to the North Country Trail.

Wrote it up the the guidebook draft.

Adventure Loop Guide

Did some more hiking today- mostly for pleasure, but it was another section that will be part of the adventure loop, so I made notes for the guide.

Got them transcribed before I forgot what all the hastily made scratchings actually meant!

Adventure Loop Guide

Today was another beautiful day! I went hunting for one missing piece of information for the Adventure Loop. I needed to check out a canoe-in campsite. But I was pretty sure that I knew how to get to it on foot, but hadn't had a chance to find out if my suspicion was correct. It was, and now I've seen the site without needing to rent a canoe.

I have added a description of the site to the guidebook.

Adventure Loop Guide

Today I did more research for the Adventure Loop. This is the best part- going outside and exploring. The results can be seen at Ellen and Joan Sneak in an Adventure.

Research is an important part of writing. If this guide isn't accurate it won't be worth anything at all. I had an "alpha version" prepared, and Ellen used it to guide us along the route, since she had never walked any of it before. A few tweaks are needed, but it was mostly accurate and understandable. Horray!

Adventure Loop Guide

I spent all afternoon working on the guidebook. I had tapes from an exploring trip that I needed to listen to and transpose into written information. It took a long time. Seems like too long. Writing guidebooks for non-existent trails is a challenge.

But I feel as if made progress.

Adventure Loop Guide

Today was a day that I had to be outside. I explored another little piece of what I hope will become a recognized 80-mile loop trail. (See Cooper Creek.) When I came home, I worked at getting this new information incorporated into the barely-begun guide.

It wasn't a huge amount of writing, but I'm too often eager to do the hiking, and not the recording of the information, so it was a success.