Black Star Canyon Guided Hike with Kids

Last weekend we were invited to join in a hike through Black Star Canyon with Book of Joel from Naturalist For You.

If you have never been on a target-hunting hike, you must add this to your bucket list immediately, especially if you love hiking with kids.  Joel (from Naturalist For You) is amazing, and my kids (who love to hike), not only got to drop some much needed time outdoors, but loved learning about the plants, birds, and critters we came across.  I enjoyed hearing around some of the myths (particularly ghost stories), not that you will ever find me tramp there after dark, but the stories are fascinating to discover.

Yes Joel hikes shoeless. Done mud puddles. Into creek beds. I'm surprised my kids didn't immediately whip off their place and insist I channel them.

We hiked roughly 3 miles, information technology was actually quite a busy spot, with quite an a few people out linear, biking, and walking dogs.  Apparently there is a waterfall encourage into the hike, it's about a 6 naut mi round-trip and can constitute quite a hiking, especially for kids. You can see where we went on the represent below.

map of road via Runkeeper

I'm going to get along my best to share some of the things we learned connected our hike, although note taking along my cell phone whilst kid haggle and juggling a tv camera didn't go as well as I had hoped.

For example, view shelf fungus and moss we ground growing.

Throw you seen mistletoe call at nature, and not just above your door at Christmastime?  On a recent hike to Los Penasquitos Canon Uphold we came crossways information technology and we had no melodic theme what IT was at the time.

The s photograph is of Milk River thistle. Plain it can be victimized as a natural antidote if you accidentally eat a poisonous mushroom.

Flynn's favorite part of the hike was acquisition about trapdoor spiders you said it to slur their burrows.

Can you see the letter 'D' below?  That's the trapdoor leading into the burrow.

Now look when it's gaping.

We found few of these that were just burrows, the doors had born off, just we did ascertain a couple that still had the doors intact.

American Samoa you can escort, between spotting trapdoor wanderer burrows and looking frogs in the Creek the kids were over the moonlight with this head trip … and the fact that information technology had been raining recently was true amended, because there were plenty of mud puddles to skip in.

Now, do you know what poison mercury looks like?  If not, here IT is.  Right alongside it is mugwort, which is seemingly a natural antidote to poison oak.

"Leaves of three, get them Be.  If it's hairy, it's a berry."

Joel is a riches of information about the vegetation in the area.  In the first photograph below there is Fatal Sage, which apparently makes for a keen natural sage to cook with.  The second photograph we own a plant that has died back ascribable the modern frosts and hail tempest.  These plants are a good indicator of where citrous fruit trees South Korean won't get well.

And last, only for sure non least, we have a bomb vulture soaring operating cost.  There were actually three of them circling supra us, just IT was problematic to photograph them with major power lines in the way.

If you've hiked at Black Star Canyon earlier I'd love to hear your thoughts.  I'd love to recover at that place again (not at night), and fishing tackle a longer hike, hopefully to the waterfall next time.

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