216 Green Fields and Tall Pines
Today is predicted to be the pick day this week for outside activities, tomorrow winter returns for at least a week so I had better get outside for some activities while the weather agrees. Looking for a hike without much elevation change, I zoom-in on some more ‘old roads’ and hay fields. The area I’m headed to is just northeast of Dickey Junction outside Richland Creek Wilderness in the Ozark National Forest. green fields and tall pines After parking near the locked gate across Forest Road 93756C, I head north through the gate into a long narrow field (1) of tall dry grass. This field doesn’t appear to have been cut this year, the road continues north through the field, I turn right (east) on another road. Maybe ‘road’ is the wrong word, this is more of a ‘farmer’s lane’ between fields. For all intents and purposes it still looks like a road, these unofficial farmer’s lanes tie together fields all over this are...
