Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area

This week we were planning on going for a hike on Saturday, but the weather report said it was going to rain, so we decided instead to go to a movie on Saturday and then a hike on Sunday. As our luck would have it, there was no rain on Saturday and it was a little drizzlely and on Sunday. We went to Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area for a 5.7 mile hike. This park has mostly

equestrian trails - there were no blazes or trail markers, so it felt like we were kind of wandering around aimlessly, but in the end we found our car okay. As we were walking, I looked down at John's legs and I saw that he had big mud splatters on the backs of his leg. I looked down at my own legs and thoses weren't mud spatters, those were gigantic ticks! We each had about 6 or 8 ticks on our legs - the biggest ticks I had ever seen. I quickly reached into the hiking pack, grabbed the bug spray and applied it liberally to both of us. The trail was pretty muddy because the night before it rained quite a bit. I got new hiking shoes last week and this was a heck of a way to break them in. Chopper, being so low to the ground collected a good amount mud and wetness as well. As soon as we got home, Chopper went right into the bath. He's nice and clean now.