Are you Following Me Everywhere? Aside from this blog, I’m all over the place, and I’d love to invite you to follow me everywhere else! I run a hiking forum that’s free to join called Outdoor Adventure Topics I’m on Facebook as Hiking with Shawn, and I have a local...
35 Easy Southern Illinois Hikes with A Lot to See Are you looking for some easy Southern Illinois hikes with a lot of cool stuff to see? You and about a hundred thousand others! I get this question all the time. So, I thought to myself, “Why not make an article about...
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Hiking with Shawn’s 5 Favorite Hiking Trails Everyone is always asking me what my favorite hiking trail are. I really don’t have one favorite. I have a few. So, I figured I might as well create an article about it so that you have some ideas of where you might...
6 Essential Shawnee Forest Beginner Hiking Tips There have been a lot of Shawnee Forest Beginner hiking folks in these last couple of years. The global pandemic, mixed with just wanting to get out and get some fresh air, had a lot to do with it. Many people were stuck...
Shawnee National Forest Bushwhacking Guide Shawnee National Forest bushwhacking sounds like a scary thing to do. Doesn’t it? The truth is that it can be scary for some people. If you’re prone to get lost and panicking, bushwhacking isn’t going to be wise. If you like...