I don't know who was more restless, my four year old son or me, but with temperatures in the seventies on Labor Day morning ,we decided it was a perfect time to make like Christopher Robbin and go on an explore.
Our destination: A portion of the Cedar Creek Trail known as Devil's Backbone.
If Lord of the Rings had been filmed in Boone County, Missouri, much of the action would have been shot here. The ridge, not more than thirty feet wide, with vertical drops on both sides, slips quickly down to Cedar Creek below. Not many places in Central Missouri feature as many rocky outcrops split by gnarled tree roots. We didn't battle any Wargs on our journey, but we did have a show down with a blood thirsty horsefly.
At the base of The Backbone we snacked on an orange while resting on an abandoned steel bridge before making the return trip up the steep trail. Before getting back in the van, we paused and dangled our feet off a limestone ledge two hundred feet above the creek bottom. It was a good moment for both of us.
Nothing cures restlessness like an explore.
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