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Visit the Florida Trail Association booth at the Fiddler Crab Festival - February 18th-20th -Steinhatchee    IDIDAHIKE 2022 - February 26th and 27th, 2022 - City of St. Marks, FloridaAn outdoor event   Annual Membership Meeting -April 2nd, @ 12:00 noon -zoom    37th Annual South Regional VIRTUAL Conference -It’s the 37th Annual South Regional VIRTUAL Conference Registration: $25 www.floridatrail.org/37th -Please consider your registration a donation to the cause if you are unable to attend.  -Note this event is open to the public and membership in the FTA is not obligatory neither for registration nor for the auction/raffle events.

 Within the Apalachicola National Forest, the   Leon Sinks Geological Area lies off of US 319  covering (in a loop) about 5 miles’ worth of  trails. The loop is divided into three well-marked  trails. The Sinkhole trail (on the north side of the  loop) covers about 2.5 miles passing various sinkholes like the Big Dismissal and the Tiny Sink. Leon Sinks is home to about 18 sinkholes, some wet and some dry, as part of North Florida’s extensive underground cavern system. Although, there is no swimming permitted in the sinkholes, the large ones filled with deep blue water are sites well...

   The Arc’Teryx Zeta FL is a lightweight, sleek, rain jacket made with GORE-TEX PACLITE. The main zipper is waterproof; the pockets are also waterproof to keep what’s inside protected from the rain. Sadly, the jacket has no interior pockets. But the outer pockets are in a comfortable location and will not be blocked by a backpack’s hip-belt. To provide a better fit, the jackets arms are articulated to better move with you, and the center back length of the jacket is slightly longer to cover the backside.                 The top cuffs of...