Our vacation to KY and OH

[tonyj]

What an impressive cave! I want to see it. Thanks for the pics and story.

[raprap]

What an impressive cave! I want to see it. Thanks for the pics and story.

Ash Cave is in Hocking Hills State Park http://www.heartofhocking.com/Ash_Cave_Hiking_Trail.htm.

Hocking Hills is in what is called by the locals (Buckeyes) in the Empty Quarter. The State of Ohio can be divided into quarters. North and South, East and West roughly using the divisors of I-70 and US23 (Reading Writing and Route 23) and centered in Columbus. The Northeast Quadrant is dominated by Cleveland. The Northwest by Akron/Canton (and is the location of the recent flood in Findley), the South West is Cincinnati/Dayton, and the Southeast is Empty.

The Empty Quarter is in the Foothills if the Appalachians, or mote properly the western slope of the Allegany’s. The northern quarters are mid level plains and tent to be flat. The Southern quarters tend to drain from the mesoplains into the Ohio and Scioto Valley and tend to be extremely hilly, particularly below the glaciations lines.

Most coastals never see this area of Ohio and think the whole state is like Cleveland and Columbus. It as biologically and geologically diverse as any of the Appalachians regions having more in common with West bygawd Virginia and Eastern Kentucky than most of the rest of the state.

Largely it is an unrecognized area and the inhabitants would prefer keeping it thataway.

I live in the midst of http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/788/default.aspx. We have the highest Hills in the world (3 feet shy of a mountain).


Rap

[clkelley564]

Great Pics!!!

[Gambam]

What an impressive cave! I want to see it. Thanks for the pics and story.

Ash Cave is in Hocking Hills State Park http://www.heartofhocking.com/Ash_Cave_Hiking_Trail.htm.

Hocking Hills is in what is called by the locals (Buckeyes) in the Empty Quarter. The State of Ohio can be divided into quarters. North and South, East and West roughly using the divisors of I-70 and US23 (Reading Writing and Route 23) and centered in Columbus. The Northeast Quadrant is dominated by Cleveland. The Northwest by Akron/Canton (and is the location of the recent flood in Findley), the South West is Cincinnati/Dayton, and the Southeast is Empty.

The Empty Quarter is in the Foothills if the Appalachians, or mote properly the western slope of the Allegany’s. The northern quarters are mid level plains and tent to be flat. The Southern quarters tend to drain from the mesoplains into the Ohio and Scioto Valley and tend to be extremely hilly, particularly below the glaciations lines.

Most coastals never see this area of Ohio and think the whole state is like Cleveland and Columbus. It as biologically and geologically diverse as any of the Appalachians regions having more in common with West bygawd Virginia and Eastern Kentucky than most of the rest of the state.

Largely it is an unrecognized area and the inhabitants would prefer keeping it thataway.

I live in the midst of http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/788/default.aspx. We have the highest Hills in the world (3 feet shy of a mountain).


Rap

I grew up in the Hocking hills, and that is a great discription of the area.
Southeastern Ohio is slowly starting to be discovered by the "big city" folk, as a second home/commute area. A little farther south is Athens county, home of Ohio University.

Here is a site for more info on the area. http://www.hockinghills.com/

Warpony , thanks for the picts, makes me homesick. Must have still been pretty dry when you were there. Ash cave has a small waterfall right in the middle, but it looks to be dried up in your picts. I'm heading down this weekend for the season opener for the Bobcats.

[peggyearlchris]

Enjoyed seeing your pictures. Thanks for sharing. Peg