by spaldinghurst | Oct 27, 2008 | General
A new adventure relay race called The Bourbon Chase will be held for the first time in Kentucky in October 2009.Teams consisting of 12 runners will run along the state’s famed Bourbon Trail on Oct. 9-10. The race will start near Bardstown and finish in...
by spaldinghurst | Oct 3, 2008 | General
By DAN WHITE“THIS is all virgin trail,” said Shad Baker, a connoisseur of hiking in the steeply slanted backwoods of eastern Kentucky, as he dropped me off at the start of my adventure there on the new Pine Mountain Trail. “This is probably the most remote place you...
by spaldinghurst | Sep 19, 2008 | General
This year’s “Bourbon City Challenge,” which was last Sunday in the area around Samuels Field, Sympson Lake and west Bardstown, had a pair of major challenges. First, the organizers, led by former Standard Reporter Bob White, lacked a major sponsor...
by spaldinghurst | Aug 25, 2008 | General
From: The Kentucky StandardRiverRestoration.org surveyed Beech Fork River near Rubble Dam Thursday as part of Phase I of the Beech Fork whitewater park project. River Engineer Jason Carey with the Glenwood Springs, Colo.-based company, which focuses on river...
by spaldinghurst | Aug 18, 2008 | General
Bardstown has been named one of 50 “next great adventure towns in which to live and play” by National Geographic Adventure magazine.On Bardstown, National Geographic wrote: “We ain’t gonna lie: Bardstown’s status as the world’s bourbon capital drew us in, but its...
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