The Buried Cars

I visited the buried cars again this last Sunday. It was rough hike to get to them. The trail paths to the cars was very muddy in places or just flooded still. I spent a lot of time finding ways around the bad spots. It was a 6 mile hike in 32 degree weather. Which would not have been a long distance if I had not hiked 8 miles the day before on worse hiking trails. Only two OK pictures came out of that hike. The last two in this article.

With all the foliage and weeds gone for the winter I found yet another card buried here. That's a total of 4 cars.

 

 

 

 

 

Trail Head Park in the snow

After the snow on the 1st and 2nd of January I hiked the Wabash Heritage Trail starting from Trail Head Park. It was an enjoyable hike. From the tracks in the snow I could see I was not the first person to hike this part of the trail after the snow. But after a couple of miles it was just down to me and someone riding a bike. The bike rider lasted longer than I did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Destination: Buried Cars

Destination: The buried cars along the Wabash Heritage Trail
Miles hiked: 9
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikkor 50mm 1:18 non DSLR lens.

I decided to go back to the buried cars again. This was a risky choice due to the rain we had last night. The trail did have a few muddy spots but it was not to bad. It rained at least a .5 in last night.

I set up a tent Friday evening and slept it in. It was relaxing to listen to the rain. This something I like to at least once a year.

Along the way I visited a site I photographed this spring. I wanted to bring a tripod this time since the area is well shaded. I have not posted my original visit, but here is a link to the set on my Flickr page. The site is a pile of rubble on the bank of the river. I liked the old twisted i-beams or rail road tracks.

Here are some flower shots along the trail

I saw many of these colorful bugs today. I have not seen it before. I wonder what it is?

Flower with a bee of some kind.

Photo's from the rubble pile

The photo's from my last visit came out better. I think I will try again with a different lens some time soon. Today lens was a manual focus lens and I was have troubles telling if I was in focus or not. This area was somewhat muddy.

A tree near the rubble pile.

The buried cars

There are three old buried cars along the the Wabash Heritage Trail. One of them can only be photographed well from the bank of the river due to the weeds. It was too muddy to do that today. Here is a link to a photo of it I had taken in the spring. I was able to photograph the other two cars.

The red car. This one was a little out of focus. It looked OK in the view finder.

The blue car. This car is hard to get a good shot of. It is much more buried than the red car. The surrounding weeds don"t help much either. Maybe next spring?

The tail fin of the blue car.

Interior of red car.

Someone painted this cat on the side of the red car. It is nice simple graphic.

Middle of the Wabash Heritage Trail

Decided to hike the middle portion of the Wabash Heritage Trail today. The middle portion start at Lafayette and go'es to Battle Ground Indiana. I only hiked part the trail today. About 7 miles from my house, down the buried cars and back.

This is the tail that I hike the most. It is not the most interesting but it is paved most of the way which is nice if it has been raining recently. I rained last night. When it rains a lot, large portions of this trail are under water. See earlier post about the flood.

I encountered a cluster of cooperative Cabbage Moths. But most of the photo's did not come out very well. This one is OK.

There are two cars buried along side of the trail. I did not photograph the other this time,

Door handles at a bank downtown

This appeared on the telephone pole next to our house a few weeks back.