Not to be out done, my sister Allison joins us

My sister Allison came down to NKY the week before my brother got married and joined us for a weekend in the Gorge. You are really starting to see that I love it down there right?

Well she loved it too. After I showed her our land down there she got bitten by the same bug and decided to jump into the pool. Yep, she bought a plot about 1000′ from ours! I think it’s great, ten years from now we will all be down there enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with plenty of room for everyone since between us we will have about 6 bedrooms!

She and her son Luke came on a few short hikes with us (he’s only 3 so he can’t hike far), and we stayed at the King’s Point cabin.

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Red River Gorge – Nov 2008

Will we ever get enough of the Red? I doubt it! Here are some photos that I took on section “I” of the Rough Trail and Whittleton Arch.

Note the one of Alsatia counting the tree rings to see how old the tree was before it fell across the trail. My budding environmentalist!

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More of RRG

Here are some more photos of us at the Red, all taken the weekend we bought our property in Timber Ridge.

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Timber Ridge – Red River Gorge

Many years ago, 1979 to be exact, I went to the Red River Gorge with a rag-tag bunch of potential future environmentalists (and a stoner or two) on a field trip with Summit Country Day. It was in Autumn and it was the first time that I ever did any serious day-hiking. I absolutely fell in love with the place and alway wanted to spend more time there than I was able.

We went there again abotu two years ago and I saw some signs for property for sale and I thought that was something I would love to do – buy some land and build a cabin on it. Well, this year I did it, we bought 3/4’s of an acre in a community called Timber Ridge which is 2-1/2 miles from Natural Bridge State Park. Our land is so wooded that you can’t see from one end to the other without walking about halfway in. There are white pines, elm, chestnut, magnolia, rhododendron and hemlock trees all over the place.

It may be a year or two before we can build our cabin, but we can always camp on it until we are ready. Though, I am happy that the hardest part is out of the way – just saying to myself that it’s OK to just do it!

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