Miller Ridge looms some 300 feet above the Panther Creek Hollow and is home to a stand of old-growth hardwood upland forest that is rare but does exist deep in the Hoosier National Forest.
Jeff Stant knows the stand and will lead me there soon for the next installment of my Revisiting the Deam project for the Limestone Post.
Since it has been decades since my last climb up the Tecumseh/Crooked Creek Trail to the ridgetop, and because the sun shone for the first time since, it seems, the Miller old growth had been saplings, Grandson Vale and I took a get-the-lay-of-the-land hike to prep for the day Jeff and I follow suit.
