Hiking with Shawn Blog
Welcome to the Hiking with Shawn Blog! You can expect weekly blog posts featuring hiking, camping, cycling, and kayaking tips. I also post trail guides around Southern Illinois and beyond. You’ll also find gear reviews on the Hiking with Shawn Blog, as well.
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The Hiking with Shawn Blog will feature one post a week featuring outdoor recreation tips, trail guides, and gear reviews.
Hiking & Extreme Heat: Lessons Learned at Cache River State Natural Area
Hiking & Extreme Heat Lessons Learned at Cache River State Natural AreaTupelo Swamp (Cache River State Natural Area). Photo taken in 2018 by Shawn J. Gossman. A few weekends ago, I did my annual bike to the Heron Pond Trail-Head and hike to Wildcat Bluff and back...
LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road: Making the Shawnee More Unique than Other National Forests
LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road Making the Shawnee More Unique than Other National Forests LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road is a Forest Service Road located in the Shawnee National Forest that is famous for sighting of snakes, reptiles and amphibians among members of the...
Time to Talk Trash!
Time to Talk Trash! The Shawnee National Forest Trash Problem and How You Can Help!Let's talk trash! Shawnee National Forest wasn't easy to get! Way back in the day, the lands that Shawnee National Forest was once on was mainly farmland. However, erosion and lack of...
Exercising Safety in the Shawnee National Forest
EXERCISING SAFETY IN THE SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST A Public Service Announcement from Hiking with ShawnHowdy Folks, These past couple of weeks have been very traumatic in terms of exercising safety in the Shawnee National Forest. We've seen several incidents of...
LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road Guide
LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road Guide For those interested in visiting Snake Road in Southern Illinois LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road Guide LaRue Pine Hills Snake Road is a very unique forest road that is a part of the National Forest system of the United States. LaRue Pine...
Hiking with Shawn wasn’t founded by Shawn Gossman…
Hiking with Shawn wasn't Founded by Shawn Gossman... "Hiking with Shawn wasn't Founded by Shawn Gossman. Shawn Gossman was founded by Hiking with Shawn." I Never Knew that Hiking with Shawn would had reached this point. On a cold December day in 2016, I started a...
Shawnee National Forest Group Hiking: My Overall Opinion…
Shawnee National Forest Group Hiking My Overall Opinion on Hiking with Groups in the Shawnee National Forest... Group Hiking... Shawnee National Forest Group Hiking is... well... Let me begin from the start! I've always been more of a solo hiker than a group hiker....
Shawnee National Forest Trail 049
Shawnee National Forest Trail 049Trail 049 Directions When traveling from Marion, Illinois, you can follow these instructions on Google Maps to get to the East Trigg Trailhead parking lot. The parking lot is on the west side of the road and it large enough for...
MPG Cycling Shorts Review
MPG Cycling Shorts ReviewYes, I am a Cyclist... I've been an adult cyclist since 2012 after realizing that I was 300 pounds of fat and laziness. I would become out of breath bending down to tie my own shoes - no joke! So I got a bicycle and started riding every other...
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