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As a side note: “Floating the Licking River preserve is permitted. On the west side of the preserve (Upstream) there is a gravel parking lot that is used to access the bike trail. It is on Brownsville
road just before the intersection with Brushy Fork and adjacent to the Licking River. You can park there and launch in the river. Take out is just past the preserve on the east end after passing under the bridge on Toboso road.”
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Deep Cut, where engineers did some blasting to cut through a large outcropping of bedrock .
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Not sure what the wall is about.
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Chestnut trail following the contour of the hill.
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This is where I spotted the bald eagle.
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First time I ever saw a bridge/path across a creek that looked like that.
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I wonder what the “gate” is for??? seems out of place to me.. I don’t think you can hike in Ohio without seeing a cornfield.
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Time to turn around and head back. Even though the temperature was in the 60’s it was starting to mist a little and I wasn’t prepared for any kind of precipitation. I had about 4 miles to go so I would say I moved at a very brisk pace back to the trailhead.
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Did you look for any fossils? I attended College in KY, and we were taken for fossil hunting in KY and OH as apparently the rocks (sandstone/limestone) here are famous for preserving fossils.
By the way, you asked for blight-proof tomato. Any of the hybrid tomatoes that are developed nowadays will be blight-free. I am yet to suffer from it (fingers crosses) and thus don't know which ones are blight free. I tried growing the heirlooms and the hybrids and all were okay. Perhaps you can ask the Ohio Agriculture Extension for the best tomatoes for your place.
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