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Past Outings: 2009Meet The Explorers - May 17th, 2009Photos by: Richland County Public Library
ECAD 2009 Photos from John Adams Hodge:Copyright 2009 - John Adams Hodge
Chapter Chairs Meeting
John and Sharon Hodge:
ECAD Dinner:
Ice Sculpture and Exotics:
Explorers hike the Palmetto Trail
By Jim Welch
RyegateCC@aol.com
Members
of the Greater Piedmont Chapter of the Explorers Club continued their quest on
January 10 to hike all sections of the Palmetto Trail. This time they attacked
the southernmost passage of the mountains to the sea trail, the Awendaw Passage.
The weather was perfect with blue skies and temperatures in the high 60s.
Explorers Jan Ciegler, Sandra Bryan, Jim and Ceille Welch, and friends Ken
Ernest, Tom Copeland, and John Fiegle set out from the Buck Hall Recreation Area
on the Intracoastal Waterway. The seven- mile hike took them along bluffs high
above the calm waters of Awendaw Creek, across several boardwalks in the marsh,
and into great live oak and magnolia maritime forests.
The Explorer Club members have now completed nine passages for a total of 87
miles of the planned 425- mile Palmetto Trail. So far, 290 miles of the trail
have been completed through a myriad of natural areas from the ocean to the
mountains around Oconee State Park. The Palmetto Trail is one of only 16 cross
state trails in the U.S.  Palmetto Trail Map and
descriptions are at: http://www.palmettoconservation.org/awendaw.asp
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