Florida Trail Association conference

[Catnip]

Hope y'all made it through the bad weather Saturday night. My kids and I decided to leave Sat. night after supper and got home about midnight Saturday. Hope it missed White Springs!

[chiefduffy]

I ended up having to work Saturday....can't turn down work these days. How about a trip report BJ?

[Gray Blazer]

We didn't see you. I was looking for #8 at the state park. I just reread and saw you were at the KOA. We had a good time anyways.

[wahoo]

Had a good time on Friday, but left Saturday about noon. We need the rain, but dang!
Kind of hard to have a good group camping trip when everything is soaked and blowing around.

[JaxHiker]

I got some work on Sat as well so I was in Daytona instead.

[Gray Blazer]

White Springs is really nice. Sat was a beautiful day.

Lots of good places to stay, camp, hike, swim, canoe and soak up a little FL history.

[chiefduffy]

Did they have many vendors/booths this year? I love White Springs, but I have never been to the conference.

[Gray Blazer]

There were a coupla info booths about different trails including that canoe trail you told me about. I didn't seee any vendors except for the normal State Park FL crafts cabins.

[Gray Blazer]

Hey, did you guys hear about the boyscout who was attacked by a rabid bobcat in the Withalacoochee State Forest yesterday? I'm not sure if he was on the FT. The bobcat jumped on his back while the scouts were hiking. His friends helped him. The bobcat went on to attack a 71 year old man.

[wahoo]

Heard about the bobcat. I think they were on the Croom Trails (FT Loop). I see lots of scouts out there. I'm not surprised about the bobcat though, seems to be a healthy concentration of them in the Withlacoochee.

[wahoo]

Did they have many vendors/booths this year? I love White Springs, but I have never been to the conference.

Nah, no vendors really. Well, Brasington's was set up inside selling some gear. The rest were mainly info booths. The folks from the Len Foote Hike Inn had a booth, Alabama Hiking Trail Society, Suwannee River Wilderness Trail, American Hiking Society - stuff like that.

[wahoo]

Heard about the bobcat. I think they were on the Croom Trails (FT Loop). I see lots of scouts out there. I'm not surprised about the bobcat though, seems to be a healthy concentration of them in the Withlacoochee.

Wait a sec - couldn't have happened on the Croom Trails. That's in Hernando, the bobcat attack was in Citrus. Silly me!

[BumpJumper]

I didnt make the conference. The weather reports were such that I did not want to drive my beast up there in those winds, only to get there and sit in all weekend. I canceled.
Sorry I missed it though.

Deb, we need to get together for a good hike.