Download e-book for iPad: Follow the Blue Blazes: A Guide To Hiking Ohio's Buckeye by Robert J. Pond,Steven M. Newman

Unique between mountain climbing trails is the person who varieties a whole loop round the country of Ohio. That 1,200-mile path is termed the Buckeye path. displaying the best way on tree trunks, rocks, and different common signposts are the blue painted markings known as “the blue blazes.” In Follow the Blue Blazes, the reader embarks on a trip to find part of Ohio principally unseen other than alongside this nice path.

Beginning with the startling rock formations and swish waterfalls of previous Man’s collapse southern Ohio, and best clockwise round the country to go to expansive forests, attractive parks, old mounds, old canals and battlefields, and scenic river trails, skilled trailsman Robert J. Pond offers a charming examine every one component of the trail.

Each bankruptcy good points an summary of a 100-mile portion of the path and 3 self-guided featured hikes. The overviews, with accompanying maps, can be learn consecutively to acquaint the reader with the full process the blue blazes. yet so much readers will most sensible benefit from the Buckeye path through taking the advisor alongside on featured hikes. each one hike is supported through a close yet easy-to-follow map and contains particular instructions to trailheads and approximate mountain climbing times.

In addition to many outlying components, the huge Buckeye path is out there in or close to Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Cleveland, and Akron. Robert Pond has supplemented each one description with attention-grabbing information about the geology and the various habitats of wildlife. Readers, too, can benefit from the good looks and wonders of Ohio in the event that they Follow the Blue Blazes.