A cool new hike

Just a short ride from Ann Arbor, the Waterloo Recreation Area is the largest state park in the Lower Peninsula. The Waterloo Pinckney Hiking Trail is a huge trail from roughly Chelsea to Pinckney - a pretty significant distance. A map of the trail is found here.

We dutifully checked it out on Saturday.


The first bad sign was this:











We saw a couple shells on the trail itself and heard gunfire nearby. That made Dr. Naj a little nervous.










The biggest problem, however, was the mosquitos. I don't know as I've ever seen more than I did today. It was nothing to slap your arm and kill three at once.

Heavy and repeated applications of bug spray reduced the bites, though the swarms of mosquitos in our faces were a little intense. But the scenery was beautiful. I'd definitely go back, but probably not until things dry up and the bugs chill out a little bit.