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Last Updated: 11/01/09
Welcome to a web site full of information on hiking in the Mid-Atlantic Region (PA, MD, VA and WV) ... topo maps, 3-D maps, elevation profiles, GPS data, directions, trail notes, photos.... everything you need to prepare for an excursion into the wilderness. Information for 202 hikes and over 2570 trail miles are now available. Venues such as, but not limited to, Shenandoah National Park/VA, George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, VA and WV, the Monongahela National Forest in WV, state forests throughout PA, Green Ridge State Forest in MD and regional, state, county and federal parks throughout the Mid-Atlantic region are represented.
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"Yet in the walks I take through nature in quest of truth and demonstration, I recognize a poetry in earth and sea and sky, ruled in their cycles of harmonious actions, deeper and more sublime than ever muse un- taught in science could inspire." William B. Rogers: First State Geologist of VA, First president of M.I.T. and namesake of Mt. Rogers, Va. |
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Latest Published Hikes
Circumnavigation of World's End State Park, PA Ketchum Run - Scar Run Circuit, PA ___________________________________________________
Bulletin Board
Attention MD AT Hikers: The SHA has approved plans to construct a permanent parking lot on Weverton Road. Work will start on or around September 14 and last through November. It is not known at this time if the lot will be totally closed. The project will proceed faster if it is. Consider using Harpers Ferry or Gathland State Park for access to the AT in that area. ___________________________________________________ M. R. Hyker's Latest Adventure(s) |
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10/24-27/2009 – Douthat State Park, VA car camping and day hiking: Douthat (pronounced DOW-thut) State Park is the oldest State Park in the Old Dominion, constructed by the CCC in 1936. We’ve driven by the exit for it on I-64 many times on our way to and from the Cranberry Wilderness, Lake Sherwood and New River National River Park. We drove through the campgrounds once just to check them out about eight years ago than thought nothing about it. Then a friend sent me a set of Leonard Adkins’ “50 Hikes in …. VA” books. One contained the descriptions of two hikes within the park. The same friend explored these hikes last year and rated them highly. This year I decided it was time for us to visit them. Since we had a long way to drive and would be camping there the decision was made to circumnavigate both Middle Mountain on the western slope of the valley and I guess what is called Beard’s Mountain on the eastern slope, adding about 4.4 miles and 900 feet Elevation Gain total to the combined hikes. |
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Latest Outing Critiques
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Name: The Tick
Hike:
Duncan Knob/ Strickler Knob ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Chris H. Hike: Ketchum Run-Scar Run Circuit 10/24/2009 Rating:
My buddy and I
just did the Ketchum Run hike this weekend right after the rain
had stopped. Those smaller streams turned into raging rivers.
Compare the pictures that I send to you with the ones on your
website. It was soggy and very awesome to see those raging
rivers. Ketchum Run was unreal. The stream crossing after you
make a left from the yellow-blue ski trail was basically
impassable. We did the bushwhack there instead and eventually
met up with the Loyalsock trail where it comes in from the left.
Check out this movie file of Lees Falls gone wild.
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Name:
Dave Barry
Hike:
Roaring Plains Circuit ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Name:
Paul Fofonoff
Hike:
Roaring Plains Circuit ______________________________________________________________________________________________ |