My brother-in-law and I went out for a short backpacking trip in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas to do the Eagle Rock Loop on Feb 16 and 17. The loop is 26.8 miles. We had originally planned to do a 2 night trip but his knees were really starting to hurt him on the downhills on day 2 so we went ahead and finished up without camping the second night. We had decent weather for day 1 but low lying clouds moved in and made for a very wet day 2. It was unfortunate that we didn't get to see the big views from the mountain tops because of all of the clouds. But it was still a fun trip. And gives me an excuse to do the loop again!