Thanksgiving in the Great Outdoors
November 27, 2009
We’ve been in Ohio for over two years now…and haven’t gone camping since we moved! That’s hard to believe, but it’s also easy to believe — the kids are getting to an age where they’ve got weekend commitments of one sort or another quite often, and, on 3-day and 4-day weekends when we would have gone camping in Texas, we’re more likely to head to “the farm” in West Virginia.
We decided to give camping a go for Thanksgiving this year, heading an hour-and-a-half to the southeast to Hocking Hills State Park, which a number of our friends have commented about as a place worth checking out. It didn’t disappoint!
A few of my favorite pictures from the trip…
Benton and Carson Cross the A-frame Bridge Near Old Man’s Cave
The View Over the Side of the A-frame Bridge
(A stepped bridge made of individual concrete pillars with cantilevered platforms for each step — pretty neat design)
Alana on the Trail Around Rose Lake
“The Sphynx” on the Face of a Cliff at Old Man’s Cave
Benton and I Playing Around with Slow Shutter Speeds and a Lightstick
(This photo is as it was taken — no post-processing)
Everyone had a good time (although Molly found herself wishing she had a thicker fur coat — she got chilled a few times), and everyone agreed that we should make a point to camp more often. Julie is already planning spring break…
Click the picture below to view the full album of pictures from the trip (31 are posted):
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| Thanksgiving 2009 — Camping at Hocking Hills State Park |
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November 28th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
What fun to view the slide show – and how fun that everyone had fun! Hocking Hills looks like a wonderful place…and it doesn’t appear that it was crowded. ;o)
December 20th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
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March 16th, 2019 at 4:50 pm
[…] Our camping frequency has dropped off dramatically since we’ve moved to Ohio, so we decided in the middle of the summer to simply pick a weekend and make it happen. The trip was in late September, and we opened up the activity to a range of friends. As it turned out, my sister flew up from Austin to attend, the Pages (with their three kids), one of my co-workers and his daughter, and another of Benton’s friends all came. It turned out to be the right-sized crowd, and it was an easy-going, compatible bunch. We headed down to Hocking Hills, which is widely regarded as one of the more scenic areas in Ohio (and where we camped over Thanksgiving two years ago). […]