Name: 10/18/25 Forest Park Hike/Ruck: Fish Hatchery
Start: 2025-10-18T14:00:00.000Z
Location: Forest park hatchery

**John P: Organizer.** **[Bourbon Burn](ttps://www.bourboncountryburn.com/).**
**Message from John P: I plan to join on this ride and invite others to join.**
Send me a message on this Meetup site if you have questions or interested in coordinating travel.

The Burn is a three-day, fully-supported bicycle tour of the bourbon distilleries and Thoroughbred horse farms of Kentucky. Choose the two- or three-day option for a fully supported tour of rolling hills in Kentucky Bluegrass country. The price includes camping at the Kentucky Horse park Campground and dinner Friday and Saturday. Glamping and hotel are also options.

**Price:** [Link](https://www.bourboncountryburn.com/pricingoptions)
**Course** [Link ](https://www.bourboncountryburn.com/course)
**Location Accommodations** [Link](https://www.bourboncountryburn.com/accommodations)

**Info below from their website [ttps://www.bourboncountryburn.com/](https://www.bourboncountryburn.com/)**
"Explore quiet country roads and quaint communities en route to world-famous bourbon distilleries nestled amongst the rolling bluegrass hills. Join our friends from all 50 states (plus Canada & Europe!) as we “cheers” to another round of riding bikes and drinking bourbon in our great home state of Kentucky."

Medallion Hiking, Adventure, and Books

John

Sabine Dietmann

9/26 - 9/28/25: Bourbon Burn bike ride - Let's go

Kentucky Horse Campground

**Nick P. - Discussion leader**

* Join us for an engaging discussion of ideas and experiences.
* No need to have read the book
* But if you have a chance to read, please come with your ideas and thoughts!
* **Time:** Arrive 5:50 and we will start at 6
* **Location:** We will meet at the Karaoke lounge 6655 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63130 (but we are just using the space - there will not be food or beverages). It is a bit tricky to find, but the entrance is from North side of Delmar Blvd. See photos below that shows a map.
* Bring a beverage and/or snacks if you wish.
* **Social:** After the book discussion, we plan go to a Delmar loop restaurant for a bite for those interested.
*
* You can acquire the book and the Info below [From Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Being-Just-Elaine-Scarry/dp/0691089590)

Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms.

Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness.

Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.

Nick Pavlovits

Ron King

Kathleen 

Mary Capps

Sarah

Sarah Z 

Debbie Hanlon

Meg Coghlan

Kimberly

Michael Honigfort

Jill

Sandy K

Lindsay

lisamerrie7

Cyndee

Sofie

Edna Rodriguez

Rose

10/1/25: Books and a beverage: On Beauty and Being Just

6655 Delmar Blvd

**Ron K and John S - organizers (difficulty 1 out of 5).** Join us for a trek in Forest Park STL followed by a social hour (for those interested). Good fellowship, fresh air, and a fun outside activity.

Update: It turns out the Boathouse is undergoing an extensive renovation and will not be open on 10/2/25.
So here is the revised plan: We will still meet at Boathouse and do a hike from there (about 1 hour or so). When the hike is completed we will get in our cars and drive to Modern Brewery which is about 1.5 miles away.

https://www.mapquest.com/us/missouri/the-modern-brewery-367326672
· **Meeting time**:

* **5:30 PM**: Start hike (we try to leave on time so you might want to arrive a few minutes early)
* **6:30 ish PM**: (optional) social hour at Modern Brewery (Feel free to join the social even if you cannot make the hike)

· **Hike length:** 3 or so miles
· **Hiking duration**: Shoot for about one hour.
· **Surface:** We expect to hike on blacktop or dirt paths (also game day call)
· **Dress:** Layers and good walking shoes
· **Food and drink:** Bring some water and snacks
· **Rest rooms:** Restroom status uncertain, but we will make efforts to find
· **Parking:** Should be plenty of free street parking
· **Go/No go plans:** We plan to hike rain or shine or cold or hot
·**Topic of the day:** Stay tuned

Hilary Engelhardt

Ashima Mehta

Kyla

Donna K

Bill L

Harshith S

Ethan Sparkman

Nancy Phillips

Mark W

John Schmidt

Cari

Dave Ganter

Barbara

Suzanne Barton

10/2/25 Afternoon: Forest Park Hike/Ruck and Social 

The Boathouse in Forest Park

**Ron K, Susan G, Don H, and Michael H - organizers (difficulty 1 out of 5).** Join us in Forest Park for one or both
**Meeting time and activities**:
***(1) 9 to 10:30 AM:*** 3 to 4 mile hike / ruck
***(2) 10:30 to 11:30:*** Backpacking demo, tips, and tricks

* What gear should you plan to bring
* How to pack your backpack
* What food and how to cook it
* we will cook some freeze dried food for you to sample
* Bathroom issues
* How to setup tent
* Safety issues

**· Meeting place: [Pavilion #2 on Wells Drive:](https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/parks/parks/browse-parks/amenity.cfm?id=408) (see photos for directions)**
· **Food and drink:** Bring some water and snacks
· **Rest rooms:** There are restroom close by
· **Parking:** Should be plenty of free street parking
· **Go/No go plans:** We plan to hold rain or shine or cold or hot

DonH

Susan Gerard

Carrie Barrett

Marty R

Patti 

charles

Andrea Mack

Aleisha

Chris Honse

Kayla Brown

Bee Faye

10/4/25 Two fun activities (1) Forest Park Hike & (2) Backpack/Camping Demo  

FOREST PARK PAVILLION #2

**Ron King - organizer (difficulty 1 out of 5).** Join us for a trek in Forest Park STL, some tips on healthy walking/hiking/rucking, and visit a few of the Park's gems. Good fellowship, fresh air, and a fun outside activity.

**Location: [Forest Park Hatchery](https://www.forestparkmap.org/fish-hatchery) Parking on Grand Drive [Google directions](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Forest+Park+Hatchery/@38.6426873,-90.2710758,82m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x87d8b52ffadfc301:0x5967fef7524156c6!2sForest+Park+Hatchery!8m2!3d38.6427614!4d-90.270949!16s%2Fg%2F11dyny3j_t!3m5!1s0x87d8b52ffadfc301:0x5967fef7524156c6!8m2!3d38.6427614!4d-90.270949!16s%2Fg%2F11dyny3j_t!5m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDcyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) (See Photos for map)**
· **Meeting time**:

* 8:30 AM: We will provide tips on healthy walking.
* 9:00 AM: Start hike (we try to leave on time so you might want to arrive a few minutes early)

· **Hike length:** Again, game day call, but we expect 4 to 6 miles depending on hikers’ preferences
· **Hiking duration**: Game day call, but shoot for about one and a half hours.
· **Surface:** We expect to hike on blacktop or dirt paths (also game day call)
· **Dress:** Layers and good walking shoes
· **Food and drink:** Bring some water and snacks
· **Rest rooms:** Restroom status uncertain, but we will make efforts to find
· **Parking:** Should be plenty of free street parking
· **Go/No go plans:** We plan to hike rain or shine or cold or hot
·**Topic of the day:** Stay tuned

Logan King

Sándor Bokor

Jeremy King

Patty

Kathy Barkey

BILL LAWLER

Rachel Rubin Wilkins

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