Forest Bathing is Shinrin-yoku

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Studies have shown that "forest bathing," or spending time in the forest, can significantly improve mood and reduce stress. Here's how to reap these benefits on your next hike.

03/02/2026

Old growth forests are so important.

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Step into a world where time slows. Wander among 400-year-old trees that have stood for centuries in this Indiana forest.

02/23/2026

Forest bathing/shinrin-yoku 森林浴

Here he only talks about one aspect of forest bathing. Know that hiking is NOT forest bathing. In true forest bathing you want to go as slow as possible, with no consideration for accomplishing a certain distance or a certain route. You should be totally in the moment breathing slowly, seeing all the colors of all the trees above.

I led a series of hikes on the five senses in 2025. It was very popular snd well received. I plan to do the series again twice in 2026: Spring & Summer and Summer & Fall.

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02/15/2026

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THIS is an extremely rare photo of the Sage of the Dunes, RonSeman.Com, when he was five years old. Here is the cRaZy part. This is 1966. What year did The North Face corporation go into business? 1966.

Well The North Face dabbled in a lot of clothing accessories. THIS has their cRaZy invention in the photo. Back in the day hikers cared about how they looked, and this stems from the formal European vibe, which still exists in countries like Austria, France, and Switzerland.

This is MY DAD’S The North Face bow tie! All The North Face products have multi-use functionality which is eco-cool, which put them a notch above Eddie Bauer (which just filed for bankruptcy)or Columbia. They are always inventing new fabrics even to this day like DRY VENT. This tie was made out of an incredibly strong fabric, which could NOT be ripped.

So the bow tie could be unraveled and you have material that could be used to strap one backpack to another without fear of it snapping. Why would you want to do this? There are four (4) reasons. So your friend is overheated, plain exhausted, dehydrated, or injured so then you could take their backpack, which of course you could strap to the top of yours to take the load off of your slacker fellow hiker (known as a SFH in the hiking community). Cost was $2.75

Being very smart and money hungry they added a little strap at the bottom of their backpack. The purpose is that you use a SECOND bow tie strap from your SFH. So $2.75 X 2 =$5.50 {In 1966 the legal minimum wage was $1.25 and the average hourly wage was $2.68. Google it!}



Google all the numbers if you don’t believe them.

P.S. You never thought you would get a lesson from an MBA (More Bad Advice) class here on Indiana Dunes Hiking but this isn’t just a stinken hiking page like all the others. NOPE.

P.P.S These are just being ramped up but national, state, cointy, and big city parks, and churches are so enthusiastic.
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02/09/2026

Trees are aMaZiNg🌲🌴🌳🪾🏝️🏕️

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TREES THAT DEFY GRAVITY

Stand at the base of a mature tree and look up. The leaves above you may be more than three hundred feet off the ground, yet every one of them is fully supplied with water every single day. There is no pump hidden in the trunk. No heart. No mechanical lift. And still, water rises from the soil to the highest branches with relentless consistency.

This upward movement happens through a tightly regulated internal pressure system. As water evaporates from microscopic pores in the leaves, it creates a pulling force that draws a continuous column of water upward from the roots. The molecules cling together with such strength that the column does not snap, even under extreme tension. At the same time, the tree carefully controls pressure within its vessels, sealing damage, preventing air bubbles, and rerouting flow when stress occurs. One breakdown and the entire system would fail. Yet it does not.

This kind of system cannot exist halfway. A tree with a partially formed water transport network would simply dry out and die. There is no slow advantage here, no room for blind experimentation. The system works because it was complete from the beginning. Scripture says the trees of the Lord are full of sap, and that is not poetry alone. It is engineering. What rises in every forest is not just water, but evidence of foresight, design, and a Creator who planned life to stand tall.

02/05/2026

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