{"id":708,"date":"2021-01-16T09:23:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rivertorivertrailhike.online\/?page_id=708"},"modified":"2021-01-27T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:15:25","slug":"panther-hollow-rna-snow-and-made-it-to-the-ohio-river-3rd-trip-2nd-with-don-wall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rivertorivertrailhike.online\/?page_id=708","title":{"rendered":"Panther Hollow RNA -made it to the Ohio River, 3rd trip-2nd with Don Wall."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was the 3rd trip I made, the second with Don Wall. We had spent too much time exploring the first bluff the previous trip and hadn’t made it to the Ohio yet. We skipped the Panther Hollow valley this time, but I’m leaving it in the title, because if I named it Buckhart Hollow you wouldn’t know it was the same area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this time we got an added bonus, a layer of snow! It made the area look different, and wasn’t a problem. We saw a ton of interesting rock formations and features and at the Ohio, we found a very old homestead site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, I hiked the Ohio bank while it was very low and the water filled cistern I found on the beach was in front of this homestead site, but normally under water. I would say this site was occupied before the locks and dams raised the rivers height, and the homeowner had to dig a new cistern further up the shore where it is in these photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n