Trekking through the muck of a creek in Red River Gorge was not then 6-year-old Gabe Pleiman’s idea of a good time. To make matters worse, the mile-and-a-half round-trip on the Sheltowee Trace Trail was taking the Pleiman family half a day to complete because of the conditions.
The bottom line: Gabe was miserable, and he let it be known in the worst words his 6-year-old vocabulary could muster.
“It’s a beautiful hike,” said Gabe’s dad, Adam Pleiman. “It has these really tall pine trees. It looks like you’re in the Pacific Northwest. There’s a creek that runs through the middle of it, and it’s just gorgeous. And the soundtrack was these ‘lousy hills’ and ‘stupid creeks.’”…