Pointless Crap

So I’ve come up with an idea.

Southern Indiana needs a trail running across it, from the Wabash to the Ohio border (or perhaps the Kentucky border, on the extreme Eastern end like near Rising Sun where Kentucky is due east of Indiana rather than due south).

I need to put together a group to raise funds to purchase lands for this. We’ll need a bunch of narrow strips of land, perhaps 200 feet wide (to give people plenty of room to set up their campsites without venturing off the trail’s property). Negotiations will be difficult, the logistics complex, the funds required enormous, but it’s doable.

Southern Indiana has some of the most beautiful terrain. Except for the narrow band running north-south that is Hoosier National Forest, it’s impossible to backpack through it. I’ve got some thoughts on routes this could run, although the actual route will of course be limited by the property we are actually able to acquire. Still, I’ll describe them in a later post, just for fun. Naturally, I’d like to hook it onto HNF’s own trail system. It’d be nice if we could hook it up to Illinois’s River-to-River Trail as well, but the trail proper has its eastern trailhead in Cave-in-Rock, which is across from Kentucky; it would be necessary to build a spur running from there up to Mt. Carmel or Grayville or Lawrenceville, or perhaps across from New Harmony, in order to do this.

Anyway, I’m serious about this. If you’re seriously interested, let me know.