We had five hikers on the Merritt Ridge Trail at Edgar Evins State Park. We started the hike at 9:30 am CT but by the time we got to the split, it was decided we were going to run out of daylight to finish the loop and get back to the trailhead. We had a few trees to crawl over that slowed down our hike. So, we turned around and finished our hike on the Millenium Trail. We ran into Nora Henn (who hiked the entire trail) on our way back and she told us there were a lot of trees down on the loop section. So that would have really slowed down our hike to get back before dark. Evidently the Merritt Ridge is not being maintained, which is a shame because it's a beautiful trail. We had views of the lake almost the entire time and nice rock formations. It was perfect weather for a hike.
Hikers were Jay Brain, Amanda Carkhuff, Joan Hartvigsen, Sara Pollard and J. C. Saunders.
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