{"id":1535,"date":"2011-05-18T13:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/hiking-at-shanty-hollow-with-mikayla\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T13:39:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:39:32","slug":"hiking-at-shanty-hollow-with-mikayla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/hiking-at-shanty-hollow-with-mikayla\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking at Shanty Hollow with Mikayla"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day started out cold and dreary \u2013 unseasonably so for mid-May in Kentucky.\u00a0 It would have been easy to stay inside and waste the day watching TV and surfing the internet.\u00a0 But, Mikayla and I had plans and we weren’t going to let the weather affect us.\u00a0 We decided to go hiking at a small lake in northern Warren County called Shanty Hollow (a popular climbing spot for locals).<\/p>\n

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Ran into a guy I went to college with and he snapped a few pictures for us.<\/p>\n

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Our destination was the waterfall.\u00a0 Mikayla enjoyed it, but had much more fun just throwing rocks in the water.<\/p>\n

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Many people know about the waterfall, but don’t take the time to follow the creek down where it cuts through the rock and makes a very cool ravine.<\/p>\n

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We then hiked out along the creek bed, stopping every 100 feet or so for Mikayla to throw more rocks into the water.\u00a0 Although it was a bit cool and a bit wet, it ended up being a great morning to be out.\u00a0 Here is a video of Mikayla throwing rocks!<\/p>\n

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Here is Mikayla’s tough girl look.\u00a0 She picked some honey-suckles and then wanted to walk the last quarter mile on her own (up until then she had mostly ridden on my\u00a0 back).<\/p>\n

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Our last stop was the lake shore\u2026 where of course she entertained herself by throwing more rocks.\u00a0 She also found a hawk feather laying on the trail.<\/p>\n

Overall it was a great morning that served as a simple reminder of the joys of getting off your butt and into nature.\u00a0 I figure we had better enjoy the cold, wet weather, because the next several years won’t have much of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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