Saturday marks the kickoff of the 18th Annual Big O Hike, a tradition of walking around Lake Okeechobee for 9 days during Thanksgiving Week to complete the full 109-mile circuit in a series of day hikes.  The group camps as a group and does cooperative shuttling to work their way around the lake.
This year’s hike [...]

Leave it to the Loxahatchee Chapter of the Florida Trail Association to soldier on with a monthly hike, always the first Sunday of every month, at Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Even in summer!  It’s how I became acquainted with the East Loop when I first researched the “50 Hikes” series, and how I’ve made good [...]