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 Gear Tag – 5 of My Favorite Hiking Gear Items
Hiking Gear Tag The Hiking Gear Tag is a tag challenge going around within the hiking, backpacking, bushcraft and outdoor communities on YouTube. I was a recipient not once, not twice but three times of the Hiking Gear Tag challenge. So three channels challenged me to...
A Mission of Art Displayed through my Video Camera…
A Mission of Art Displayed through my Video Camera... 2018 Goal: Increasing my Presentation Quality with my video camera2017 is over... I started Hiking with Shawn in December of 2016. Quickly, the year became 2017 and I had already completed many hikes. 2017 was...
Bulge Hole: The Waterfall Paradise of the Shawnee National Forest!
Bulge Hole Waterfall Trail... There isn't enough space on this blog post to write everything I could about the Bulge Hole Waterfall Trail, even if I tried my best. The trail is absolutely amazing, unlike any other waterfall location I have been to in the Shawnee...
Hiking Indian Kitchen with Two Bobs Adventures
Hiking Indian Kitchen...Nestled deep within the Shawnee National Forest's Lusk Creek Wilderness is a unique natural area known as Indian Kitchen. Hiking Indian Kitchen is a gem to local and tourists alike. Natural Areas are managed and maintained by the Illinois...
Hiking Crow Knob…A Slice of Heaven after Aborting Two other Hikes!
Jackson Hole - Hike Aborted! Hiking Crow Knob InsteadBefore we get into hiking Crow Knob, here is the story: So I awoke today on December 31, 2017, New Years Eve with the intention of ending the year by hiking to a new spot that I had never been before. Before I went...
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