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SEPTEMBER 2023 UPDATE
The Central Indiana Wilderness Club has now started to plan Trips and other events for the 2024 calendar year. These will be released first to our members at our Annual meeting, date to be announced, but you must be a member to attend the Annual meeting. 2024 Trips will be released to the general public in late January 2024. If you would like to know more about Trip Leaders check out our Open Positions tab.
October 2024 Events
Mark your calendars for October 11th, Wednesday evening at 6:30 PM (social time) and 7:00 PM meeting start. This will be a public meeting at Holliday Park, Indianapolis. Our speaker will be CIWC member, Janice Windes. Janice will present a recap of her recent solo canoe trips to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Wilderness this past May. This is a Public meeting so both members and non members may attend.
Public Meeting Registration Link: October 11th
Holliday Park Volunteer Days for October 2023: (Click on date below to Register)
October 21, 9:00 AM. Twice a year we “pay back” Holliday Park for allowing us free use of their facilities for our socials, workshops, classes and other events. We do this in June and again in October. Your volunteer hours are needed to help us meet our goals with our partnership agreement.
Dress in work clothes as we will be out on the grounds most likely setting up the pumpkin luminaries for the park’s Halloween event.
October 29, 9:00 AM. This volunteer day is simply to go back out to the trail and pick up the pumpkin luminaries and return them to the maintenance area. Easy and quick.
Stay tuned for additional future dates and announcements
If you have questions contact CIWC at ciwcinfo@gmail.com
Some Useful Links
Additionally the DNR Trails Section has contacted us with these suggestions.
The best practices we have personally been trying to promote are hiking at non-peaks hours (weekends or late afternoon or early evening) if possible as well as considering taking the less popular trails when possible. For example in the Indianapolis area, maybe consider hiking the trails at the Nina Pulliam Ecolab at Marian University or Southeastway Park rather than the those at Eagle Creek Park, Holliday Park, or Fort Harrison that are often very busy. And if you do go to Eagle Creek maybe you don’t try to hike the red trail and instead opt for the green loop or the newer trails on the west side that are less popular.
Update From Hoosier National Forest - Deam Wilderness
Questions: ciwcinfo@gmail.com