Road Trips and Hike Reports

This was basically a leg stretcher with 2 friends and their dog who was recovering from surgery.  I include it just for completeness.

I desperately desired a fall camping road trip. So despite Brian being unable to join me, I went to Ohio for a wonderful long weekend of exploration. One of the two hikes I did this weekend was at West Branch State Park near Ravenna Ohio.  The park surrounds an enormous reservoir (Michael J Kirwan Reservoir) and has a lot of different areas scattered through its 5,352 acres.  I parked just North of the bridge across the approximate mid-point of the reservoir  (Rock Spring Road).  The Buckeye trail (Ohio's statewide very long distance trail) passes through the park so it was my hope to follow it for about 3 hours then return.  Unfortunately after maybe 3 miles I got to a piece of trail that walks along a road and though it seemed to be blazed, after maybe 1.5 miles of hoofing it along a dull country rode I lost sight of what I thought were the blazes and the only local I had a chance to ask was unaware of the Buckeye trail going down his road other than right where it popped out o