I took a plant ID class this past semester called AGRON 560 and our teacher brought us to more than a few areas to find native plants. It was really fun walking through all sorts of terrain to find specific plants. Often times the weather was nice but since it is a fall class sometimes …
Float Trip
Another fun thing I did over summer was going on a float trip in Noel, Missouri, located about 4 miles away from Manhattan. On this trip my friends and I rented a few kayaks and for 3 days we just went up and down a river, occasionally stopping to talk with strangers or to swim/jump …
Climbing for Turkey Day
So I may end up sounding like a broken record here with the last blog post, but over Thanksgiving break I went back to Horseshoe to do some more climbing. What can I say, I like climbing. This trip was slightly different from the summer one however. For one, it wasn’t just a trip …
Summer Climbing
Very early this semester, a few of my close friends and I went on a climbing trip to Arkansas. We camped and climbed in a place called Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, an area we had all been to in the past located about 20 min away from the town of Jasper, Arkansas and a 6 hour …
Road Trip
I know this wasn’t in Manhattan, but bear with me. This outdoor experience was the culmination of a massive, spontaneous, 6-day, 49-hour, 3000-mile road trip starting in Manhattan and ending in Fayetteville, Arkansas before our 5-hour drive home. This whole road trip was unplanned and entirely on the fly yet we spent less than $300 …
Milford Lake
A few years ago, my best friend and his dad and sister took me out on Milford Lake with their kayaks. They had just gotten them and were excited to try them out so they invited me along with them. If you don’t know where Milford lake is, it’s about a half hour southeast of …
Disc Golf
My first outdoor recreation activity in Manhattan that I love to take advantage of are the two high-quality disc golf courses around Manhattan. Fairmont Park is the bigger one; an 18-hole course off of Bill Snyder Highway that is connected to both a football field with a track and a small playground, and is situated …
PMC 210: Intro to Outdoor Recreation 