Hiking & Extreme Heat Lessons Learned at Cache River State Natural Area Tupelo 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 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! 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...
EXERCISING SAFETY IN THE SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST A Public Service Announcement from Hiking with Shawn Howdy 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...
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...
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...
