Teddy Keizer
(a.k.a. Cave Dog) is attempting to set a hiking world record. His goal is to do a 50 kilometer hike in all 50 states in less
than 100 days. He solicited our help for VA, WV, MD and PA. He chose Dolly Sods, Massanutten Mt, Green Ridge Forest and the
AFT as the venues for this region. We prepared maps, trail notes and some basic driving directions for him. He started his
adventure on September 11th and will be hiking through this area in mid-November. Maps, trail notes and schedule are available
at: www.TheDogTeam.com. If you get a chance join him for a small segment. Tell him Mike
sent you!
Welcome to a web site full of information regarding hiking in
the Mid-Atlantic Region (PA, MD, VA and WV) ... maps, elevation profiles, directions, trail notes, references, photos....
everything you need to prepare for an excursion into the wilderness. Information for 86 hikes is now available. Venues such as, but not limited to, the GWNF-Great North Mt. (North-east and
South-west areas), the northern and central sections of the Shenandoah National Park/VA, Massanutten Mt, VA, the
Michaux State Forest in PA, the Monongahela National Forest in WV and Green Ridge State Forest are represented.
NEW!!!!! Midatlantichikes.com now has 3-D maps, Critique Forms and
Flash slide shows for most hikes. TOPO! GPS and GPS txt files will be added as the data is collected.
Critique: We started from the top of North Mtn, near Judy Gap on Rt. 33, and hiked the whole trail, 23.8m,
which came to end on Smoke Hole River Road (below Chimney Rocks). We started at 10am and got to Redmund Trail around 6:30pm
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Critique: I'd been wanting to do this particular
backpack trip for the last two years. I was pleasantly suprised when I came across your website! With the
almost identical trip that I had planned and with all this fantastic info on it and other hikes.
I've saved this site to my favorites. Read More>>>
Critique: If you want to experience a moderate, yet wild backpack, this is a good choice. While
the hike up Shavers Mt. is nice, there are no views other than looking up under the tree canopy; the rewards are subtle, but
the solitude is sublime. Read More>>>
Sept 10th – 12th: This
was a 3 day, 25 mile backpack in one of Penn’s crown jewels of hiking, the Black
Forest. I was joined on this trek by Ted E. Bear. We had reached the general
vicinity of the venue in plenty of time and found the trailheads for the Blackberry and Pine Bog trails. We would be using
these as connectors on our final leg. We quickly grabbed my GPS unit and hiked up the Pine Bog Trail and found an un-charted trail to Old Mountain Road. I stored a waypoint in
the unit before returning to our vehicle. (This would make things a lot easier come Monday.) We continued up Rt44 to where
the BFT crossed it
at its northern most point. We ate our lunch at the parking area and were in the woods by 1:00 PM.
Labor Day Weekend/05: I’ve held off writing this report for two days
mainly because I didn’t know where to start. This was one of those weekends in the wilderness that is so hard to describe.
It would be easier if we could just paste about thirty photos on these pages and let you study them but a two-dimensional
medium like this probably wouldn’t begin to translate the awesomeness of it all. I guess I’ll just begin at the
beginning.
We
were all assembled at the South Prong/Boar’s Nest trailhead by 12:00 noon. There was Gear Gal and Gear Guy, Hardcore,
The Kid (Coca-Cola that is), Pathfinder, Gadget Girl (She’s always field testing this or that little trail goodie.),
Hungry Ted, Indiana Moser and, last but not least, the Traveling Gnome.
