by Steven Higgs | May 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’ve been hiking what AllTrails calls the Monroe Trail for more than three decades but have never followed it to the lake of the same name. I’ve always taken a side path to the now-history Waldrip Cabin when the old road-turned-trail heads 230 feet downhill...
by Steven Higgs | May 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following are snippets drawn from a 30-minute conversation with Jeff Stant on a hike through the Charles C. Deam Wilderness to a stand of old-growth hickories, which were as magnificent as he said they would be. This was the second of a series...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’ve titled the April Revisiting the Deam feature in Limestone Post after my original color photography muse Eliot Porter’s 1963 coffee table book The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado. Here’s the working lead to Waldrip Ridge: The Place No...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
To connect any dots between Southern Indiana and Northern Finland where we will be in six weeks, I had to trace back through 25,000 years of human history, give or take a few millennia. When we drive in May along the Swedish border from Rovaniemi, Finland, to Alta,...
by Steven Higgs | Apr 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
After writing the story of Roscoe Hayes’s life in the Charles C. Deam Wilderness – he ended up living in a hollow beech tree – I decided to return to the Hayes Trail, one of my favorite Hoosier National Forest treks. While it was a perfect day for a wilderness walk,...
