Blackfoot Loop Hike to Push Shelter

August 22 2025·279 words·2 mins

Push Shelter - Complete with Picnic Tables and Toilets

Today was a combination hike: to train to increase my distance hiking and to perform maintenance on an old geocache hide that that had gone missing.

I started out from the “Waskehegan Connector Trail”, a seldom-used trail that serves as a nifty shortcut to the southern portion of the Blackfoot. It’s been a very long time since I’d been here and I do believe the Waskahegan Trail Association maintenance crew have done some work on it this year.

After getting onto the trails and replacing my geocache hide with a new container, I continued east to Push Shelter. I’d been here just a few weeks ago and the place was just as quiet today as it was then.

The return trip was via “Ed’s Way”, a trail that was new to me. It’s a park boundary trail which means it is long, straight and a bit boring to walk on to be honest. But now I can say I’ve been on it!

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Over the turnstile and the hike begins! A Waskahegan Trail Yellow Marker An ungulate gate - lLarge lnimals can enter, but can't exit A Thriving Mushroom on the Trail A Couple of Teenager Mushrooms Passing an expansive pond along the way I'm a sucker for bends in trails bathed in light What light shines from around this corner? A ground hugging mushroom It's always a treat to stop off at a rest hut This Section is called "George's Way" The Boundary Fence Hikers Climb Through the Bottom Hatch Pacman Lake Now I have to find where I parked that car

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Grant S Wilson

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