Hiking Indiana's Knobstone Trail
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- On April 15-18th, 4 people (Dani, Bo, Lacy, and Steve) set off to complete 45.5 miles of the Knobstone Trail. We began at Deam Lake Trailhead and ended at DeLaney Lake Trailhead.
The Knobstone has some of the roughest terrain to hike in the Midwest, with average elevation changes of roughly 317ft/mi. This video was meant to give hikers insight to trail conditions, but instead it ended up being mostly a case for the forests surrounding Knobstone Trail.
Logging activity was prevalent every day we were on the trail. It was appalling how much of the natural scenery, on an already rough hike, was made harder because of the barren spaces along the trail. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR), I have learned, has had such severe budget cuts from the state that they have resorted to selling timber at-below cost for profit.
Please visit www.indianaforestalliance.org to learn more facts about Indiana's many State Forests, and the affects logging has had on locals and wildlife. You can also sign a petition on their website and on change.org to ask Gov. Mike Pence to protect our state forests.
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looking to hike this tail this weekend! so ready for it
My adult son and I completed a nobo hike in 3.5 days and it kicked my butt. Beautiful hike and trail but lots of hard work. We didn't really need to use our water drops as the creeks were flowing. Many have stated the Knob Stone is a good work out before the AT.
Way to jump in with both feet Dani!!
This was a great vid. Please keep them coming. Love the slip and fall clip and that you were able to laugh at yourself. Shit like that happens to all of us. I have seen quite a few hikers completely lose their minds over a slip like that (mostly my brother-in-law lol). Cheers, John
Great video! Thanks for sharing! Just finished it this fall, did the Tecumseh in the spring too! I wish I would’ve seen this before my hike. Great info.
Bryan Riddle I'm very glad you liked it! I'll have to look into Tecumseh myself. I hadn't heard of this trail!
Awesome job Daneilla, I did the K.T. back in 98. Back then it wasn't to bad, but I see logging efforts have picked up quite a bit since, not to mention the tornado damage a few years when Daniels was governor.. If I remember right I finished in four days and I think my Kelty Super Tioga weighed in at around 30ish lbs. Because we did it the second week of April, so there was plenty of water and we filtered alot! We did a gear cache near the hallway point. I god rid of my aluminum spoon and got my lexan one, my pack was so much lighter, lol...
I think if I ever do it again, I find local businesses and have food delivered, like pizza! Again, awesome job.... Mark
That was awesome!
First, you are not an awful videographer! Lol
I really enjoyed that. The feeling of being along for the hike was genuine.
I HATE loggers! And logging is a rapacious industry that is driven by greed, not by necessity.
Back to nice things....I hope to see more around the fire banter, if only a bit. :)
Much respect for the accomplishment.
Great story about the 54 year old gent. Cool!
Looking forward to more.
Be well Dani
Craig
+Forestwalker111 Thanks Craig, I'm so glad you liked it buddy! I also hope to bring my camera along on more adventures and everyone can explore my area vicariously, at least. :)
+Daniella Brunton that would be fun
Hahaha my buddy and I did the trail maybe a week are 2 before you. We were cussing the entire way. We were there during the windstorms and actually my stakes blew out of my tarp 2 times one night and it was about 20 degrees. It took us about 2.5 days and it was the worst 2.5 days ever. I'm laughing because it's just comforting to see that pretty much everything we thought that sucked you agreed. And the spurgeon hallow is such a relief at the end of that evil trail. The Hill at MM 29 was the worst. By pack weight was about 11lbs base weight and 22 with food and water. Anyways, congratulations and thanks for making this video because no one believes me when I tell them how horrible that trail is. Ps, get yourself some trekking poles. You can thank me later 😉
I really enjoyed that; thank you so much! Very well done to you all. It is really sad to see the devastation left by all the logging and I'll sign the petition if allowed to do so from the U.K. You inspire me so much to keep getting outdoors despite having health issues (I hope that doesn't sound weird) ;-) Looking forward to more of your vids. Awesome :-D x
That is the sweetest thing I've had someone say to me today! I'm so glad you're inspired, keep being inspired by whatever you need to get yourself outdoors! It doesn't even have to be a 45.5 Mike hike. lol. In fact, I can't recommend it. Haha! :D
Thank you for sharing your adventure! I plan on doing it the 3rd week of May for the first time and from the looks of it I better do it now while it's still here. I live in Perry County along the Ohio River and they have been clear cutting the Two Lakes Loop, German Ridge and Mogan Ridge Trails for the past few months. If any of those are on your "to do" list I'd make it a hiking priority now. They are almost unrecognizable and the logging trucks are also destroying the backroads. Good thinking on adding the Indiana Forest Alliance petition link. I signed it a few months ago and have been asking everyone I know to join me. Hopefully maybe together we can stop the senseless and greedy removal of our precious forest. Take care and happy hiking!
Great job and great vids! Thanks for taking us along.
Awesome, you're welcome!
Proud to be one of your first subs!
great video my friend! looking forward to more. just subbed! cheers!
Great video mate :0 Im subbed, keep up the good work :)
Nice video! I've not done the whole trail yet, did the first 6 miles or so, those knobs try to kill you for sure! if you want a nice 16 mile hike check out the Two Lakes Loop Trail, it's near Tell City.
i wish i had friends that like to hike.
Yep the reason for the 13 - 15 mile marker re-route is due to a timber harvest in Clark State Forest. Information on re-routes is posted on the DNR website for the trail: (www.in.gov/dnr/forestry/4224.htm). I am planning on hiking this later in the summer, thanks for the vid! Do you have a detailed breakdown of your mileages per day and water cache locations?
I don't have a breakdown but I can just tell you where we stashed them. And I was glad we were cautious!
1. Pixlie Knob Rd intersection
2. New Chapel Trailhead
3. Leota Trailhead
4. Elk Creek Lake Trailhead
5. Oxley Trailhead
Good luck on your hike! It is very tough terrain, so I hope all goes well for you!
Keep In mind the Knob Stone was not designed by hikers....absolutley no switchbacks...all up and down. crazy...I completed it 2 years, ago. had a blast...but very tiring. Keep up the good work..
Jerry Nonya That definitely doesn't surprise me! There were many points we asked ourselves "what in the hell were they thinking!" lol. Thank you very much, I'm glad you appreciate my vid!
You do know that they log the state forests to maintain fire breaks and regulate native flora and fuana, right? Not just profit. And why is making profit so bad anyway? Maintaining parks arent free and its not like they charge big money for the use of them. I certainally believe we all need to think more ecologically, but lets be reasonable adults.
my boy scout troop, we went on it it was worst than backpacking the Smoky Mountains....
ThatRANDOMTeen s It's pretty tough! It definitely doesn't need to be underestimated, which is what I did lol.
I had a dream and a lot of them have came true ... I m almost certain that this trail should be watched as it may be the target area for some really bad shit .
See your using a hammock too, smart girl! Thank God for cheaper technology, titanium, hammocks, top, bottom quilts and the list goes on, lol...
Hoobilly Indiana Amen, buddy! My back definitely appreciated being able to use a hammock lol
I feel depressed after watching this! It's not a death march...zoinks
Khevin Black Toe the Pirate Watterson Sorry to make you feel depressed! When I had ill-fitting boots that caused my entire feet to become a blister, a strained tendon in my foot on the first day, extreme 80° temps with no shade in April, and greater elevation changes than the total AT combined and on top this was my first long distance hiking trip ever... You could say I was a bit depressing. But I finished it. And I used a cane for 3 weeks after with a permanent smile on my face. It's easy to judge and assume that the reasons I expressed my feelings this way was unfounded but RUclips videos can't really convey that well. I'm sorry it didn't evoke some sort of motivation for hiking, but this was my experience that no one else could understand. ✌️ I hope you enjoy my other outdoor adventure videos instead, they were definitely more happy and less painful for me.
@@danibrunton7864 thanks for the video. No disrespect intended but the total elevation gain on the KT is less than 11,000 feet. It is absolutely some tough climbing. The AT total elevation gain, however, is 515,000 feet. That's a bunch.
D, you're a trooper, and hilarious. I really enjoyed your video. With that said, I feel compelled to ask two questions:
1. Why did you guys cache H2O when there was plenty of all natural water sources provided by Mom Nature?
2. Why did you allow yourselves to be diverted from the trail onto an unhealthy road walk detour when even if there were downed trees galore you could've simply walked around them - that is unless the trail now crosses a treacherously high but broken swinging bridge or they stooped to posting determined armed guards at either end of the disputed trail territory refusing your right of way?
*At the risk of sounding like a smug A-hole, the KT was my first backpacking experience and, much like it did you, it kicked me in the balls then sucker punched me in the jaw. I hated it. I swore I'd never hike again. I've since completed two AT thru hikes, a Wonderland Trail thru, and more than 5,000 miles on lesser known paths around the country. Your video gave me the gift of time travel and gratitude for those truly shitty but obviously intoxicating baby steps into the wonder that is the natural world. Thank you. Hike on...
35ABSTRACT we cached water at multiple points to limit how much water had to actually carry. It was also the first time we ever thru hiked and couldn't be certain when or where water would be available. It's not the world's most popular thru hiking trail and the info we found wasn't exactly reliable. Why would we risk not having water when caching is easy? Futhermore....it was hot the weekend we hiked it and every time we made it to a cache we actually used the leftover water to basically bathe/cool off. Too much water is better than not enough.
Also, we "allowed ourselves to be diverted" because we had no idea what the condition of the trail was. We felt it was safer to just take the detour. Climbing over and under fallen trees is dangerous, especially when already exhausted. And if they were logging, still better to take the detour anyway.
Don't worry bud, you definitely came off like a smug asshole.
1) if you read the DNR website it actually says " WATER is NOT available from most of the streams shown on the map near the trail because they are dry during much of the year. Hikers need to provide their own water supply." So this means either carry water (HEAVY) or cache it.
Make another one lazy.