Somewhere along Route 1328 to
"Tall Weeds" on Route 70, 1 mile east of Roundhill, Kentucky
~ 12.1 miles - Tuesday - February 10, 1981 - Day 305Click on photos for larger versions. Click on text links for additional content.
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The Progression of HikaNation - Kentucky
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Unofficial Kentucky campsites
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Another coal mining operation
(photo by William Ewart) |
"Tall Weeds" campsite east of Roundhill, Kentucky
(photo by Janet Parsons) |
Coal mining road and traffic
(photo by Marce Guerrein) |
"Tall Weeds" campsite east of Roundhill, Kentucky
(photo by Janet Parsons) |
From William Ewart's journal:
Rain, heavy at times throughout the night at Route 1328 campsite. Very very windy, gusty this morning. Off and on rain....by time i was ready to take the tent down, a downpour began. Packed up tent anyway - off late by 1130am. Still 5 or more tents still up. Dislike getting wet in my $135 Gore-Tex jacket - what a waste.
Passed by a school just before hitting Nells Cafe 1pm....kids were lining the windows and waving. Welcome relief at the cafe - just to get the wet stuff off for awhile.
Rain stopped around 130 - 645pm. Past by a strip mine operation - right through the middle of it. Sloppy roads due to the rain. Partial reclamation efforts going on too...starting over, planting grass or ?
Passed through Roundhill before this "Tall Weeds" campsite - gas station men said a foot of snow is expected. They seemed surprised when I said I preferred snow to rain.
Very very windy and gusty again this evening. 930pm - in gusty waves - you can hear it approaching in the trees, you brace and then it hits the tent.
Lots of locals in Illinois and now Kentucky, riding by, shouting, beeping horns to wake us up and/or to disturb us - I get a good laugh out of it!!
"Tall Weeds" campsite - around 10-11pm, raining buckets! Heaviest rain on the trip. Later changed to sleet and then snow overnight. Wind was fierce.
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