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Six Mile Run Reservoir Site

Here it is late February and we finally got the first "significant" snowfall of the season with a whopping 4 inches of snow. After what has been a very wet winter (I could never live in Seattle) we were finally able to get out a enjoy a local hike after a few inches of snow. Six Mile Run Reservoir Site is the first time we ever adventured to this particular set of trails. We have done tons of hiking, biking and canoeing on the D&R Canal but haven't ventured to Six Mile Run until today.

I certainly expect we will be back to hike again as the trails offered some great hiking, enjoyable scenery and several different trails to offer variety. Round trip we did 1.8 miles (I inadvertantly deleted the the track log from Everytrail.com, but will add back soon).


Six Mile Reservoir - Red Trail at EveryTrail
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• Blue Trail - Hiking, Biking and Horse - The 3.8 mile trail follows along the forest edge and occasionally travels into the woods. It is blazed with blue markers on trees or posts. Horseback riding is permitted on the majority of the trail. Please pay attention to the trail use signs posted along the path. There are two stream crossings that do not have bridges on this trail; one includes the Six Mile Run. Water levels in Six Mile Run can be high at times, especially after a rain. Plan on getting wet feet. The Blue trail connects with the Yellow trail in two locations and also connects with the Red trail.


• Red Trail - Hiking Only - The 1.5 mile trail traverses through a variety of habitats including open fields, young cedar groves and upland forests. It is the most rugged of the three trails, containing some steep slopes and intermittent stream crossings. Please Note: The west bound blazes may have some problems with markings showing arrows. The Red Trail connects with the Blue Trail and forms a 5.3-mile loop. To get to the Blue Trail from the Red Trail, you must cross Six Mile Run. There is no bridge that connects the two of them.


• Yellow Trail - Hiking, Biking and Horse - The .9 mile long trail passes through the lowland flood plain associated with the Six Mile Run. After walking through a small field area, you will enter a heavily wooded area dominated by Pin Oaks, Box Elders and Ash trees. Watch for painted turtles basking on logs in the river and listen for the call of bullfrogs from the wet edges. This trail connects with the Blue Trail in two places to form a 1-mile loop and a 2.5-mile loop. During wet season the trail will be muddy.


• White Trails - The white trails are simply connecting trails: one white trail connects the blue trail to the yellow trail - this makes a blue/yellow loop. The other white trail gives an alternate path for horse riders.

EveryTrail.com

I have spent the past several weeks trying to understand how I wanted to integrate trip information using GPS tracklogs, pictures, maps and other bits of information from our trips. In the research I came across an interesting service by Every Trail which to this point seems to fit the bill of what I am trying to accomplish. I have, however, heard great things about the Trimble Outdoor Adventure Planner as something that may accomplish a similar task plus a little more.

While I haven’t looked into the Trial Version of Outdoor Adventure Planner, I will be doing so in the future. A few things I like about the Every Trail service so far:

• Seamlessly downloaded Track and embedded the Tracklog and Statistics in Google Maps.
• Great Geo-tagging features of photos that cross-reference the time stamp on the photo with that of your Tracklog to intuitively place photos along the track. While not 100% perfect it was pretty damn close!
• Opportunity to make trip public or private.
• Appears to integrate with Blogs…so hear she goes……
  
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Originally, I had set-up this Blog on Wordpress, however, because of limitations with Iframes, I have moved it over to Blogger. The one thing I liked about Wordpress was the ability to create multiple pages within a Blog. For example, we are planning trips to Hawaii and Acadia National Park and I would have liked the fucntionality to create a separate page for each of those topics. Presumably, however, I should be able to accomplish the same with Tags within Blogger so this will evolve as time goes on.

Much more to come...Enjoy!