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2011 Lowcountry Unfiltered Congaree Swamp Stomp

Posted on January 10, 2011 By Tom 2 Comments on 2011 Lowcountry Unfiltered Congaree Swamp Stomp
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Lowcountry Unfiltered at Congaree

It was the first second Saturday of 2011, and my friends from Lowcountry Unfiltered decided to brave another swamp stomp in the Congaree Swamp National Park. We did this once before in January a couple of years ago. At that time it had been raining all week, and we had one of the coldest, wettest hikes we’ve ever experience. This time around it was cold, but fortunately much dryer.

Last time we wandered around with a vague notion of where we wanted to go.  This time we had a target, or, more appropriately, targets.  We were looking for champion trees, and we wanted to see how many we could find before we wore ourselves out.

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