Anyone with the notion that winter is simply dull white on brown needs to take a hike.

For a perfect winter hike try Bluffton's Motter Metro Park, part of the Johnny Appleseed Metro Park District.

The Icon did just that on New Year’s Eve.

With an almost full moon rising, temperatures in the low teens, snow on the ground and animal tracks mixed with winter boot prints, here it what the Icon found in the early evening of Dec. 31, 2017.

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