Some Hiking

This weekend we took our camper George and headed to our annual first camping weekend at Rock Cut State Park located in Loves Park, IL. We left Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend and headed an hour north. My step-son and mother-in-laws accompanied us for the weekend.

Rock Cut for a state park has an amazing amount of hiking trails as you can see on this map. We brought our packs along and the new trekking poles to get the full effect. As we learned, Rock Cut land is very hilly at times meaning we hiked with some elevation, better than walking on our suburban neighborhood.








As best we could figure out the hike was about 9 miles. This is three times further than we have hiked before. So how did it go, fine. How did we feel afterwards? Speaking for myself I ached especially in my knees and a new ache in my left hip.
Michelle was tired but did not seem to ache as I did. But in the end hiking felt good and we are ready for more!