We picked up the Buckeye Trail where it crosses Snowville, close to Riverview. That's a flowering branch of a buckeye tree.
We picked up the Buckeye Trail where it crosses Snowville, close to Riverview.
That's a flowering branch of a buckeye tree.
Glen used the GPS ability on his phone to help navigate.
crossing the marshy area the shortly downhill from here crosses Riverview and
frequently closes Riverview after big rainstorms.
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up and down and up terrain
Jack-in-the-pulpit
baneberry
Boyscout-installed steps
gasline right-of-way
Bat house?
one of the creeks that drain our Echo Hills neighborhood.
We veered off the Buckeye Trail at this point to
follow the creek uphill.
Since the creeks weren't showing up on the phone GPS, it was
tricky to locate the creek that runs behind our house.
We ended up on one that comes up behind the older section of the neighborhood.
The last steep slope coming up to the ridge line from the creek was
a real challenge. Fortunately, we met some very nice neighbors
who happened to be out in their yard. They offered us
water and a ride further up the hill back to our house.
So we hiked around 3 miles. Once we rested up a bit, we found
some antifreeze fluid and drove back to the van. Glen put a lot of
fluid in and managed to drive it back up the hill to home. He diagnosed
a crack in the overflow container that might have accounted for the
fluid loss, but we took it in for repair anyway and they found
an additional leak in the system which has now been fixed.