Per our usual this time of year, we headed down to the Mulberry River to do a conditioning hike at the Redding Loop. We've done this hike several times over the last two years. It is a way for us to get out and keep our trail legs. For some reason, this trail doesn't get fully overgrown until late July, and even then it is only in parts. On this trip we did the loop counter clockwise and ran into a lot of blow downs from recent storms. This part of the trail is a mess. Maybe over the coming weeks a few trail maintainers will clear some of it out. Those folks are true trail angels in Arkansas.