Hiking and Exploring In Parts Of Daniel Boone National Forest and Other Areas--Part 2

Hiking and Exploring In Parts Of Daniel Boone National Forest and Other Areas--Part 2This is the second of my books in a series about hiking and exploring in parts of Daniel Boone National Forest and other places outside of the DBNF, which is in eastern Kentucky, south of Lexington. I moved to this region in late 1994 because of the national forest and the topography. Exploring rocky creeks in woods and cliff lined hollows has long been a big interest of mine, and making photographs of all that. I did a lot of that in western

This is the second of my books in a series about hiking and exploring in parts of Daniel Boone National Forest and other places outside of the DBNF, which is in eastern Kentucky, south of Lexington.

I moved to this region in late 1994 because of the national forest and the topography. Exploring rocky creeks in woods and cliff-lined hollows has long been a big interest of mine, and making photographs of all that. I did a lot of that in western Kentucky, and then started on this region in late '94.

After moving here, I made a new friend, Tom, and he and I did some roaming, by road and a little on foot over the next several years. Another new friend and co-worker, David, and I did a lot of cave exploring in 1996, and some surface hiking. I met my wife Barb several years after moving to this region. She likes the outdoors too, and she and I went on many outings. Then Majid found my website I had at the time and contacted me. We became friends and he and I went on many outings since then. We did a lot of hiking in parts of the DBNF here, and a few other places not in DBNF.

I made many photos during all those hikes, of cliffs, waterfalls, rocky creeks, and some views from overlooks. I made many photos inside caves in 1996, and had an article published in Kentucky Living magazine late that year. For a while, I had a cave section on my website, which is now gone. That's how Majid found me. I might do a book on caves in this region, the small number I went to. I have many cave photos. David and I weren't hard core cavers. We just went where other people had been, and where we could walk mostly. Those caves were new to us.

Mostly, I and who ever was with me hiked on the surface in interesting places, and there are many in this region, many more than I will see. I did a lot of roaming in the boonies by myself in a Jeep while I had one. That was more than 20 years ago. After that, Barb and I did a lot of roaming in different trucks we had. For the last several years, it has been Majid and I going out to the boonies to hike and explore interesting places. I said a little more on all this in my introduction at the beginning of the first Book, Part 1. I have an introduction in each book. This book contains a continuation of where I left off in the first book, the rest of Section 5.