RPG Leads With a Provisional Outing

Ed Max, one of the many leaders of RPG Outings committee, organized a provisional outing --- complete with mountains of paperwork to meet our COVID safty protocils --- to get folks out into nature’s beauty this spring. 

By Ed Max

What a time it has been ... waiting for the pandemic to ease just enough to get a hike together at Bluff Spring Fen ... one of the first in Illinois. The annual fen hike never disappoints. What it lacks in acreage, it makes up for in diversity with over 450 species of plants (and counting), plus quite an array of birds and insects, including dragonflies. Mike Davis, our resident geologist, did a fine job explaining the kames and glacial history of this place. Thanks, Mike! It was great seeing many familiar faces on that warm sunny day.

Photo by Ed Max

As COVID restrictions loosen up, Sierra Club will be adapting. Our outings team will be meeting to schedule events to get us back out into the wild spaces around DuPage and beyond. Keep an eye on the calendar for future day and weekend outings this summer and into fall. Hope to see you on a hike soon.

Photo by Ed Max