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Hiker Lunch

By Joe Stinnett

I hosted a cookout lunch for my hiking group, the BG Hilltrippers, at Holliday Lake State Park in Appomattox County, to thank them for all their interest and support for my Liberia project over the years I’ve been working on it and talking about it while hiking. We hike the trail around the lake a couple times a year and I love the vintage timber-frame Shelter No. 1.

Two of the guys, Reggie Pugh and Norwood Morrison, got me a cake. We had a good turnout with about 30 hikers attending, including our founder, Billy Giles, who convinced me several years ago not to give up on getting the book published — while we were standing on the High Bridge on the High Bridge Trail near Farmville.

About 30 members of the BG Hilltrippers hiking group posing together under the timber-frame Shelter No. 1 at Holliday Lake State Park, one holding a cake.
About 30 BG Hilltrippers turned out at Holliday Lake State Park’s vintage timber-frame Shelter No. 1 — with a cake from Reggie Pugh and Norwood Morrison.
Three hikers grilling hamburgers and buns on a charcoal grill beside the park shelter.
Firing up the grill for the cookout lunch.
Two hikers in conversation at the cookout, plates in hand, under the park shelter.
Good company and conversation at the lake.
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