Adventure Indiana | Spring 2012

Bloomington Tough Mudders push their limits

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Bloomington Tough Mudders push their limitsIT’S A MUD, MUD WORLD

10 Crawford County canoeing sails nature’s shoresON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE

8 Bloomfield shop offers hunting around the globe and all year longTECHNO HUNT

14 Bedford fisherman creates a tournament and scores some bassFISHING–WITH BITE

Bedford man has fun times with dirt bikesRIDING THE DIRT TRAIL

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MUD, MUD

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WorldBloomington Tough

Mudders push their limits

By Joel Pierson

You may be tough, but are you Tough Mudder tough?

Every year, in venues on five continents, partici-pants prove their strength and endurance in what may be the world’s most grueling challenge. It’s called Tough Mudder, and it’s a 10- to 12-mile obstacle course designed by British Special Forces. More than half a million men and women have signed up to date, to test their mettle and raise money for a charity called the Wounded Warrior Project.

Local Tough Mudders Scott Miller and Mick Wil-liams talked to Adventure Indiana about their recent experiences on the course, beginning with the most obvious question: Why take on something this brutal?

“My wife said she was doing it, with or without me,” Scott said. “Also, I have friends serving in the

Bloomington mudders Mick Williams (second from left) and Scott Miller

(far right) with fellow mudders Joseph Crider and Rebecca Miller.

Photo courtesy Scott Miller

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military and law enforcement. I got to run the event with my police officer friends and wife and help raise money and awareness for veterans—how could I say no?”

For Mick, it was a good old-fashioned dare.

“My friends had found the event and were looking to put together a group. I al-ways like physical and mental challenges. I felt I had to step up! I always like to find

sports or activities that both mentally and physically challenge me.”

For both Scott and Mick, the recent Mudder event was their first. Both men are planning to do another endurance event in June, the weekend before the 2012 Indiana Tough Mudder, so neither is sure if he’ll be in this year’s competition.

But they’ll be back; an event like this gets in your blood, and with challenges all

around the country, opportunity will knock again.

What’s going through a challenger’s mind as he runs the course?

Mick answered, “When you start out, you are very jazzed and excited about doing the run. After you hit the first couple of ob-stacles, you are still pretty excited, but the cold starts to set in. As the event goes on, all you do is focus on the next thing—be it

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an obstacle stage or just making it up the hill in front of you. Having teammates or people to talk to during it is a great help, as they can help keep you distracted from the physical pain or cold. I very much fo-cused on just what was ahead of me and nothing more.”

Scott summed it up in one word: “Ex-citement,” and then added, “I didn’t try to memorize the course, so I didn’t know what obstacles were coming up next. Af-ter some of the events, I couldn’t think at all—jumping into ice water in November or getting shocked in the head tends to do that to me. Overall, though, I kept thinking how happy I was to be doing something so cool with my wife and friends.”

While the event is fun and exciting, Scott points out that it is certainly not without danger. But the rules allow com-petitors to bypass obstacles they don’t want to attempt.

Mick added, “I don’t think you have to be in amazing shape to do the TM, but you need to be physically prepared for it.”

Tough Mudder and its participants have raised more than $2.5 million dollars for the Wounded Warrior Project world-wide. As Scott explained, “The WWP helps wounded veterans deal with the stresses of their injuries, transitioning back to civilian life, finding employment, and many other areas. Many military person-nel do an event like this every day—only when they step, they have to worry about [explosives]—and they are still away from their families at the end of the day. We have the luxury to do events like this only because others are willing to serve. It is our duty to give back.”

Mick agreed. “As a son of a WWII veteran, to be able to give back to them through participation in something like this is a great feeling. Knowing that the money from Tough Mudder goes to WWP helped motivate me during the course.”

The Tough Mudder Oath speaks to the core values of the WWP: “teamwork and leave no one behind.”

Still not tough enough for you? Well, participants who finish in the

top 5 percent of any Tough Mudder event in 2012 can come back in December to compete for the title of World’s Toughest Mudder—and a $10,000 prize, in a grueling 24-hour event designed to push the hu-man body to its absolute limits.

To learn more, visit www.toughmud-der.com. The 2012 Indiana event will be held June 16-17. You in?

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A huge wild boar grazes 60 feet away. It raises its head, ready to charge at the least sound. A hunter stands poised with a bow

and arrow.An African safari? A western hunt in Wyoming? A wild game trip

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“You can choose whatever you want to hunt, wherever you want to hunt,” said shop owner Tom Colvin. “You don’t have to worry about it being hunting season or what the weather is like or how ex-pensive it is to travel to someplace ...The computer-generated scenes are so realistic.”

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“The best score is a 10 for a bulls eye,” Colvin said. “But you can get lesser points depending on how well you shot. I have several customers who come in and are really good and they will shoot a point average of an eight or nine.”

Techno Hunt is in living color with realistic sound ef-fects and moving animals. “You’ll hear birds chirping and crickets as if you are really outdoors. You can hear an elk bugle. Some of the pigs will grunt and on a scene where two bucks are sparring, you can hear their horns clicking.”

So popular is the game that Colvin has gone through three different genera-tions of Techno Hunt. His shop is the only one in the area to offer the Techno Hunt, Colvin said.

“The first one I got was in the fall of 1996. I had never seen anything like it before,” he said. “We got our first system when Heartland Outdoors went out of business in Bedford and I bought the system off them. We used it about six years until it got old enough that it completely shut down on us.”

The next two systems had even better graphics, Colvin said. “They are very expensive, but the clarity today is just unbelievable. The technology has grown by leaps and bounds since the first one I bought.”

To use Techno Hunt costs $10 for 30 minutes. “Most peo-ple play it in groups,” Colvin said. “Two people will play it for $5 a piece, but I do have guys who come in six at a time and play it in a group, usually for an hour. You can play it by your-self, but it moves really fast paced. I’ve done it for a half hour by myself and come out of there pretty tired.”

Some archers like to use Techno Hunt to compete with others or with themselves. Some do it to practice and im-prove their ability for when hunting season rolls around. “You only have a limited time to hunt deer with a bow and arrow so you want to be sure you are ready for it,” Colvin said.

He got into archery late in life, Colvin added. “I was 18 years old and saw a friend doing it,” the 41-year-old said. “That doesn’t sound old, but it is when you think of all the kids who have been doing it almost all their lives.”

Colvin hunts primarily for whitetail deer with a bow and arrow. “I started off as a gun hunter, but decided I like bow

and arrow better,” he said. “It’s more challenging and a lot quieter. I really enjoy being out in the peaceful woods and getting some exercise. And you get to go out in the woods to hunt with a bow and arrow about a month earlier than gun hunters do.”

When he be-came interested in archery, Colvin said he noticed

that the Greene County area lacked archery shops. “At the time, the area didn’t have a large facility with a wide variety of equipment to choose from so I opened my own in 1995. It is now the largest oldest shop in Greene County.”

A full-time employee at Crane Army Ammunition Activ-ity, Colvin also serves as a reserve deputy sheriff for Greene County. To help staff the store, he relies on his parents, Roe and Dick Colvin, and his wife Carolyn.

Along with archery equipment, Archer’s Spot also carries firearms, offers bow repair and has an indoor archery lane, plus regular archery tournaments. “We have a lot of indoor competitions during non-hunting season,” Colvin said.

“When you enjoy archery, you want to do it and keep in practice no matter what the weather is like outside ... The Techno Hunt is a lot of fun. Usually someone will try it once and like it so much they want to keep doing it.”

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Canoeing on the Blue River is a chance to get close to nature and enjoy one of In-diana’s most historic and scenic river ways. Folks with cabin fever from a Hoosier win-ter start eyeing the calendar to see when Cave Country Canoes will be opening for the season.

“This year, we are opening a bit early,” says Carol Groves, marketing director for Cave Country Canoes. “We’ve had so many calls from people so this year we will open on March 31. That is the earliest we have ever opened.”

The seasonal canoe livery runs from May through August, with weekends open in April, September and October. Cave Country Canoes is located at 112 West Main Street in Milltown, about five min-utes from Marengo Cave.

“I’m ready for spring,” Groves says. “I think a lot of people are and we just can’t wait.”

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“That’s the way we keep our rotation,” Groves says. “If we buy 50 boats, we try to sell 50 boats.”

Cave County Canoes now has about 400 canoes, 160 kayaks and a fleet of buses and vans to provide transportation to canoeing drop-off and pick-up spots. Excursions are offered in 7-mile half-day canoe trips or 14-mile full-day trips. All canoeists are required to wear life jackets and to watch a 7-minute safety video prepared by the American Ca-noe Association.

Paddlers mostly come from the India-napolis, Evansville and Louisville areas. “The most boats we ever rented in one day was 591,” Groves says. “That was exciting. Of course, some of the boats were going out twice that day, but it is quite a record.”

The Blue River is known for its beauty and history, Groves said. The river has long

been a form of transportation, first for the Native Americans, then for pioneers and early settlers who also set up gristmills on the river.

Private paddlers began using the river for recreation after World War II and the first canoes were rented in 1969. The Blue River flows less than 100 miles from its headwaters northeast of Salem to its junc-tion with the Ohio River near Leavenworth.

“The Blue River is fed by more springs than any other river in Indiana since it drains one of the state’s largest cave areas, includ-ing Marengo Cave,” Groves says.

Considered Indiana’s cleanest and high-est quality stream, the Blue River is home to abundant wildlife, including several en-dangered species. One of those is the Hell-bender, one of the world’s largest salaman-ders.

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This is offensive-type fishing. You have to

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the fish to get their lure.” — Kevin Yeary

Fishing – With Bite

Bedford fisherman creates a tournament and scores some bassBy Pete DiPrimio

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He who hesitates won’t catch bass. Is that a problem? You bet it is. Patience is

fine for, say, knitting, but if you want to eat, if you want to thrive in tournament compe-tition, aggression rules.

If you don’t believe it, listen to Bedford’s Kevin Yeary. He’s a life-long bass fisherman and the force behind U.S.A. BASSIN, a bud-get-friendly tournament organization with ties across the nation that caters to week-end fishermen.

“This is offensive-type fishing,” he said. “You have to actively try to get them. You’ve got to promote the fish to get their lure.”

In other words, sitting in a boat, throw-ing out a fishing line and knocking back a frosty beverage will get you nothing but frustration.

“It’s not like you throw a worm in, sit back and wait for it to happen,” Yeary said. “You’ve got to keep moving till you find them.”

And then you’ve got to out-smart them, which is what intrigues Yeary so much.

“You’ve got to figure out that little fish, what he’ll get, what he wants that day,” he said. “You’ve got to trick the fish to get what you’re throwing at him.”

It’s man vs. fish, and man doesn’t al-ways win. But that’s not the point of U.S.A. BASSIN. Check that. Winning is one point (you can advance to local, regional and na-tional events), but it is superseded by these main elements:

Make it as fun as possible at a reason-able price and close to home.

Yeary had once competed in bass events with entry fees of $100 or higher. For a lot of people, that was a problem. So eight years

ago Yeary came up with U.S.A. BASSIN that had divisions (called “trails”) that had $50 entry fees.

“I put together a tournament trail that fit my budget,” he said. “That way I could go fishing, and still feel like I could take my wife out for supper.”

Yeary’s main job is with the Bedford Fire Department, but his fishing passion caused him to go beyond that. He’d competed in bass tournaments before, but as he said, “I’m not the best tournament angler in the world. That’s why I’m doing tournaments in-stead of fishing them.”

Beyond that, Yeary doesn’t tournament fish much anymore (except occasionally with 14-year-old son Clinton) because he’s too busy running the tournaments that culminate with a Super Classic at Kentucky Lake in early May.

“You have to be out on the water where the fish are at and that takes a lot of time.”

U.S.A. BASSIN rules require a variety of artificial lures (some can even look like frogs), but no live bait. You fish for large-mouth, smallmouth and spotted bass. Tour-naments last about eight hours. Each team weighs five fish. The team with the most weight wins.

Prizes include boats and sponsor prizes for adults, and college scholarships for teenagers. There’s a $5,000 scholarship to Bethel University and a $12,000 scholarship to Louisville’s American Barber College.

Not bad for a guy with a dream.“Yeah, it surprised me,” Yeary said. “I

didn’t know where it would go. I started it because I enjoyed doing it.”

He still does.

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older, you get with a different group of riders. When I started rid-ing I went with my dad. Then it was friends. For a while I rode with my son. Now I ride with an older group. It changes.”

The faces might change, but the passion doesn’t. You take a 200-pound motorcycle—on-road motorcycles generally weigh

two to three times as much—into the woods and fields, up hills, across streams, battling dirt and dust and mud and, yes, snow, and there’s got to be a reason beyond feeling the wind in your face.

Check that. The wind is a big part of the thrill.“It’s a lot of fun,” says Scott, who works at Bedford’s M & E

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No matter what, expect to get dirty.

It’s easy to get hooked. Scott says his father rode until he was 70. One of his father’s friends rode until he was well into his 80s. As long as you can keep your balance and not fall off, you’re good to go.

“It is pretty physi-cally demanding,” Scott says, “but you don’t have to be a jock to do it. You see people in all shapes and sizes do trail rid-ing.”

The best times to ride are spring, summer and fall, plus “any time that’s not raining,” Scott says.

Riding in the rain isn’t recommended because, Scott adds, “It tears the ground so much, we stay off of it when it’s really muddy.”

Motorized trail riding isn’t cheap. A new dirt bike can cost between $5,000 and $7,000. Then there’s another $1,000

for safety gear such as helmets, boots, chest protectors and more.

Some states are more trailing-riding friendly than Indiana, which is why Scott and his riding group that includes Buddy Starr, Randy Saunders and Dan McBride

sometimes travel to Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky.

West Virginia, for instance, has the Hatfield-McCoy system, which has more than 500 miles of trails. There’s the Lo-retta Lynn Dude Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.

You transport the bikes there, camp out there and “have a three-day fun ride

there,” Scott says.Out-of-state trips usually involve

large groups of as many as 15 riders, al-though Scott normally rides with three or four friends. They’ll ride a couple of times a week in good weather, about

once a week in the winter. Rides can last two to three hours. And if you ride in the snow, expect to go slower.

The best way to get a feel for mo-torized trail riding, Scott says, is to join a local club, such as the Stony Lonesome Motorcycle Club, which is based be-tween Columbus and Nashville on Hwy. 46.

“It’s one of the oldest motorcycle clubs in Indiana,” Scott says.

There’s another club, MUDDOBBERS,

in Matthews, Ind., that has been around more than 50 years.

“I’ve gone with new people all the time,” Scott says. “A lot of people I’ve known who ride started with me. Some get into the sport and stay. Some don’t. You either like it or you don’t.

“Over the years I’ve made a lot of friends riding and met a lot of people.”

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Dru Johnson hits the mitts at Vortex Martial Arts Gym in Bloomington.


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Before he goes to work as a paramedic for Indiana Univer-

sity Health, Dru Johnson, 46, can be found as a regular student at Vortex Martial Arts Gym. The mixed martial arts gym, located at 1711 N. Walnut St., offers classes that fit into John-son’s lifestyle where he works full time from 7 p.m. to 7a.m.

Johnson has been training for two years in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a form of ground fighting or grappling that utilizes defensive positioning funda-mentals. He is now learning mixed martial arts striking techniques to develop his skills and to train his body.

“Mostly the reason I take it is be-cause it’s interesting to me, and the whole body influence and exercise aspect of it,” Johnson said.

To further his conditioning, Johnson said he is eager to learn yoga. “There’s a lot of flexibility and strength involved in martial arts,” he said. “There are times when you use your strength and use your flexibil-ity, but you don’t use it all the time; you have to know when to use it.

“I’ve always been fairly athletic,” Johnson said, referring to when he used to play volleyball, which he said is harder on his body. “I still have issues with exercise-induced asthma ... but now I am able to get through class pretty well without stopping.”

Johnson has entered two com-petitions in the “above 30” age range where most of his competitors were a lot younger than he is.

“The people at our school aren’t out to prove anything, we just want to improve ourselves and definitely don’t want to try to hurt anybody,” Johnson said. There are a few stu-dents who do want to fight profes-sionally in mixed martial arts.

Two years ago, Johnson dis-covered Vortex Martial Arts Gym through his interactions between the ambulance service and the po-lice department. Johnson, who also serves as a Special Weapons and Tactics team medic, knew Mick Wil-liams, his S.W.A.T. team commander. Williams is owner of Vortex Martial Arts Gym and instructs Johnson’s classes.

Johnson said he takes classes with a smaller core of a wide range of people, including a fellow para-medic, a physical therapy aide, IU students and a bread deliverer.

“If you have a family, a career or if you go to school, you definitely have to make time somewhere to do it,” Johnson said. “It can be tough, I mean, I go at least three times a week and I have to rely on people to stay over at work.”

Johnson has worked for IU Health for 22 years, and now that his chil-dren are getting older, he feels like he can make time for the hobby that he is interested in, even if it includes rearranging his routines.

“It’s a great workout, and they say you burn 1,500 calories in an hour of doing this kind of thing,” Johnson said. “It’s great for your body.”

Dru wears his gi and

white belt for Brazilian

Jiu-Jitsu, a form of ground

fighting.


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By Jackie Sheckler Finch

On a drab January day, a family from New Albany arrived at Delaney Creek Park for the first time. Making reservations

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“I was a little concerned because there isn’t a whole lot for a family to do in the park in the winter,” said manager Jerome Los-son. “But they said that was exactly what they wanted.”

Mostly “city slickers,” the family spent much of their time sitting around a campfire outside the cabin and talking. The two children—a 10-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter—were excited about watching the deer.

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In fact, the family was so pleased with their getaway that they said they would be back in a few weeks and bring other family members with them as well. “The camp-ground is open year round,” Losson said. “A lot of people might not know that, but we do get people virtually all year round. Many of the people who come in the winter are deer hunters or turkey hunters. In the spring, it’s a lot of people who want to fish.”

Located off Ind. 135 just a short drive north of Salem, Del-aney Creek Park is owned and op-erated by the Washington County Parks and Recreation Department. The campground dates back to 1978, but the modern campground section is about six years old.

“The woods are beautiful here,” Losson said. “That’s one of the things that makes Delaney Creek Park special. It is so beautiful and peaceful here.”

Facilities include primitive camping sites near the lake, a modern campground with water and electric hookups, a dumping station, shower house and a hillside shelter and a pavilion that can be rented for gatherings. Delaney Park also offers 13 cabins with heat and air conditioning. Cabins have two bedrooms, bathroom and a dining/kitchen area with a full-size refrigerator and hot plate. Lodges have four bedrooms, two showers, kitchen with full refrigerator and cooking stove.

“The lodges will sleep about 30 people,” Losson said.

“The lodge and cabins are all within easy walking distance to activities.”

Delaney Park also has a camp store and a swimming beach with a lifeguard in the summer. Delaney Creek Lake is an 88-acre, manmade lake stocked with fish by the Department of Natural Resources. “The fishing is really good, mostly bass, blue gill, red ear, catfish and crappie,” Losson said. “We also rent 14-foot aluminum boats and paddleboats.”

For many people, the nearby Knobstone Trail is a popular reason for visiting Del-aney Creek Park. Directly adjacent to and connect-ed to the Jack-son/Washing-ton State Park, Delaney Creek Park offers easy access to the hiking trail. The longest continu-ous hiking tail in Indiana, the

Knobstone Trail totals 58 miles passing through a rugged forested part of Indiana’s highland known as the Knob-stone Escarpment.

The Knobstone Trail intermittently follows the crest of the escarpment, rising to heights of 500 feet above the surrounding forests and farmlands before plunging down to the bottom again—many times over.

Developed at backcountry standards and managed for foot traffic only, Knobstone Trail is regarded as a rug-ged difficult trail to hike. “A lot of hikers come from all over to train on the Knobstone Trail,” Losson said. “Many of them use the Knobstone to get ready to hike the Ap-palachian Trail ... Someday, they hope to extend the trail all the way to Bloomington to connect with the Hoosier National Forest, Yellowood State Forest and Morgan-Monroe State Forest.”

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