beautiful and challenging. my friend and i went out from the dnr fire headquarters on a thursday around 11:30am and finished Saturday around 3pm and the crooked creek boat ramp. i used the hoosier hikers council guide beforehand to plan and the map on the hike. the portion that they claim is closed is very easily passable, but you trespass over train tracks. we stayed at the fox den shelter night 1 and the black gym campgrounds at yellowood night 2. our first day was around 14 miles, the second around 16 and the third was 10. rather than going on the west side of yellowood lake on day 2 we went on the east side to get to the campground easier, otherwise day two would have been around 20
miles. we went during the first few calendar days of spring and saw lots of wildflower and budding trees. hiking with a 50lb pack and little training was very challenging. my friend and i are both active and this left both of us very sore. i would reccomend this hike, it felt like a journey and accomplishment. great time overall :)
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Spent three days on this trail and really enjoyed it for the most part. There are a few places overgrown but not terrible. Lovely seclusion in the woods with beautiful scenery.
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We picked an unfortunately hot afternoon for this hike, but it is very pretty terrain. It would be interesting to see what the low parts of the trail are like when the lake is higher. Watch out at the top of the lake; its easy to get off the trail. The whole loop is 4.5 miles; technical difficulties meant i wasn’t recording the first 1 mile+.
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