5/2/2023 0 Comments Chalk ridge falls park![]() ![]() The interesting thing about it, however, is the large number of very large fallen trees. ![]() The entire trail parallels the Lampassas River, and it's a pretty basic, flat trail. The falls at the beginning are impressive, but the best ones are those at the end in my opinion, so it's really worth the hike to see them. On the main trail there are a series of falls - at the beginning of the trail and at the end by Camp Tahuaya. You'll see water gushing from large springs in the side of the cliff wall. The farther you go upstream, the more interesting it gets. This is the best part of the park! The creek has cut deep into the limestone there, so it has made a really neat canyon that has caves and springs all over the place. If the water level is right, you can walk that creek bed for about a mile upstream. There are some steps there that will take you down to the creek bed. So, when you walk down the nicely maintainted trail you'll get to a wooden bridge/walkway that crosses a creek. In addition to the obvious trail that follow the river for about 2 miles, you can also make your own trail by following the creek that the walkway crosses (by the green pond). Unfortunately, the floods in 2007 took out the really neat suspension bridge, and as of November 2007 they still had not fixed it, and the trail was closed at that point. But as you go farther the trail turns into a dirt path which can get quite rugged and overgrown somtimes. It starts off on a nicely maintained path with railings, bridges, info signs, etc. This hiking trail is great because of the variety. Chalk Ridge Falls Park is just north of Salado - about a 35 minute drive out of Austin. You can also watch a discussion between Tara Henley and Megyn Kelly beginning at 51:07 in this video.It isn't often that I can recommend a place that's north of Austin, but this is an exception. This is how we wound up during the pandemic, in Toronto, with a largely racialized working-class population stuck on packed public transit, working precarious warehouse jobs for very little pay and filling emergency rooms - while the conversation on the left was almost entirely focused elsewhere. You’re welcome to read the rest of her revealing account.Īnd in her article “ How Did We Get Here?” she analyzes the ascendancy of “wokeism.” Here’s a passage:īut whatever you choose to call it, the social justice movement that’s sprung out of all this is focused mainly on shifting language and speech norms, on symbolic victories like toppling statues, and on building a vast, identity-focused human-resources apparatus that provides university graduates with lucrative administrative jobs. That’s from a January 13th article by Canadian journalist Tara Henley, who has described herself as being on the political far left, explaining why she resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. To work at the CBC is to submit to job interviews that are not about qualifications or experience - but instead demand the parroting of orthodoxies, the demonstration of fealty to dogma. It is, in my newsroom, to fill out racial profile forms for every guest you book to actively book more people of some races and less of others. To work at the CBC now is to accept the idea that race is the most significant thing about a person, and that some races are more relevant to the public conversation than others. It is to pretend that the “woke” worldview is near universal - even if it is far from popular with those you know, and speak to, and interview, and read. It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions. To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity. I’ll bet there’s a graduate student in linguistics out there somewhere who’d willingly study why some verbal adjectives ending in -ing add an -ly more resistingly than others do. The other day in an interview I heard someone say ongoingly would you say that? On the other hand, we’ve heard about people getting along swimmingly, even exceedingly swimmingly. I probably wouldn’t say *runningly or *workingly. That raises the question of why with adjectives ending in -ing that come from verbs we sometimes add an -ly to make an adverb but in other cases we resist. Granted, some dictionaries don’t include matchingly others do. * The WordPress editor red-underlined matchingly. ![]()
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