Eagle Rock Loop, AR

The Ouachitas are some of those mountains I've visited a handful of times, and always afterwards find myself thiking that I need to explore them more.  Back in 2007 I said I'd be back.  Again in 2010 I said I'd be back.  So off I went for a few days to lose myself for the third time in the vibrant green of spring - complete with lush hillsides, roaring boulder-strawn rivers, sunny mountaintops, and shadowy flower-lined creekbeds - this trail had it all.  The forest was alive, the weather was refreshingly perfect, and I thoroughly enjoyed the smooth riverbottom stones underfoot at the nine wet crossings.  This is the life!