OCTOBER 19, SATURDAY, Meet 9:45 a.m.
Picnic Lunch and Easy Dayhike
Where: Paul Grist State Park near Selma, Alabama
Details: Paul Grist State Park is one of the state’s most
uncrowded, yet scenic state parks containing hills, forests, fields and a
large, beautiful, tree-lined lake.
Prior to the dayhike we will get
together at the smaller pavilion right near the Park Office to eat our picnic
lunches. Please bring your picnic lunch
and also $3 per person ($2 for children age 2-6 and seniors age 62 and older)
park admission and a beverage for yourself.
Dayhike Details: Hike rated easy as there are only a few ups and
downs. Total hiking distance is
approximately 5.5 miles. We plan to
walk all the way around the lake and then also walk on some additional trails
in the park to make the drive time down and back worthwhile. Well-behaved, carefully supervised children
age nine and over able to walk 3 miles without complaining are welcome. Please bring your drink and wear sturdy
footwear.
Optional group restaurant dinner
after the hike. Reservations not
required for this outing.
Please meet 9:45
a.m. at the McDonald’s Galleria. We plan to depart from there at 10:00 a.m.
Info: Randall Adkins, 205/317-6969
OCTOBER 24, THURSDAY, 9:30 a.m.
Easy Weekday Walk
Where: Vulcan Trail inside the City Limits of Birmingham
Details: Enjoy an easy walk in the woodlands overlooking
Birmingham on a Thursday morning. The
trail is level, as it is on an old mining railroad right of way just below the
crest of Red Mountain. A previous walk
on this trail drew one of the highest numbers of participants, 67, on any
outing SEO has ever sponsored. Don’t
miss it!
Please meet at 9:30 a.m. in the Vulcan Park and Museum Parking
Lot where you would normally park to visit the Vulcan Statue and Vulcan
Park. We plan to depart from there at
10:00 a.m. Please follow the directions to the meeting place. Please note that three people got lost
trying to find the group on our last hike on the Vulcan Trail because they
tried to use their GPS to find the start point. Their devices misled them to The Club and to the TV stations on
top of Red Mountain, not to the Vulcan Park parking lot!
We will walk from the big parking
lot a short distance down some new stairs to the trail head and then on the
trail to Green Springs Highway and back.
The formerly unpaved section of the Vulcan Trail has recently been
widened and resurfaced.
After the walk is completed, there
will be an optional lunch at Jim 'N Nick's 11th Avenue Grill at Five Points
South. Well-behaved, carefully supervised children age 7 and older
able to walk 4 miles without complaining are welcome.
Share an adventure. Bring a friend or friends.
Info: Dan Frederick, seoutings@bellsouth.net or 205/631-4680
To obtain driving directions to Vulcan Park and Museum Parking
Lot.--Vulcan Park and Museum Parking Lot—1701 Valley View Drive,
Birmingham, AL 35209. Please call 205/631-4680 to obtain a
list of complete directions to Vulcan Park from all major highways in
Birmingham. You may leave your email
address and a phone message if you wish, and the directions will be emailed to
you promptly.
OCTOBER 26, SATURDAY
Dayhike, Sipsey Wilderness, Bankhead National Forest
Details: Moderately strenuous 4-mile hike in a highly
scenic location, Upper Quillan Creek Forest Area. Most of the hike is off trail, there are lots of ups and downs,
and several rock-hopping crossings are required across small creeks.
We’ll walk along two creeks and on
an old road. At a beautiful waterfall
we’ll visit the site of an old mill. On
this hike we’ll see several small waterfalls on side creeks and tributaries to
Quillan Creek. We will visit at least
three very pretty waterfalls on Quillan Creek itself along the way.
Please bring picnic lunch and
water for the day. We expect to finish
about 4:00 p.m. Optional dinner
after. Well-behaved, properly supervised
children age 9 and over able to walk 4 miles off trail without complaining welcome.
Reservations Required: If you wish to participate in this
outing, you are required to call Dan Frederick, 205/631-4680 or email your
reservation to seoutings@bellsouth.net by 5:00
p.m. on Thursday, October 24. When you
contact Dan, please be sure you leave either your phone number or email
address. This outing is limited to 20
people, and we will break up into two separate groups of up to ten people each
with its own separate leader in order to comply with U.S. Forest Service
regulations. We hope the limitation
will not prove to be a problem. At a later date
leader will advise meeting time and place only to those who have signed up for
this trip.
If you make a reservation with Dan to come on this trip and then for any
reason decide later to not come on this outing, please telephone Dan,
205/631-4680 right away. If we have 20
people signed up on the day of the hike and, say, we have two people on the waiting
list and then two people who signed up don’t show up for the hike, those two
no-show people have in effect deprived the two on the waiting list from
participating. Please don’t be a
no-show. If you aren’t coming after
making a reservation, please notify Dan.
