It's safe to say that the AT in Maryland is almost completely the original trail It stays on top of South Mountain.
This is a narrow ridge line and there really isn't anywhere else to put a trail.
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It's safe to say that the AT in Maryland is almost completely the original trail It stays on top of South Mountain.
This is a narrow ridge line and there really isn't anywhere else to put a trail.
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Forget Dudleytown. The most haunted, creepy place in the world is the Smoky Mountains.
Don't believe me? Google these names:
Dennis Martin
Polly Melton
Trenny Gibson
Chunky Gal Trail: Gotta love that name :o
The one hiker feed I'm familiar with is held by "The Captain" along Big Stony Creek north of Pearisburg (However, the Captain skipped it this year because he was sick. Dunno about next year.) The...
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You put a lot of work into this. But it confirms something I've always known: Bus service to the AT is much more plentiful in...
Two year old thread, but it still applies. The trail crossing is at exit 54 (I-81), which is a place called Groseclose. Atkins is at exit 50, four miles from the AT crossing. If a hiker wants me to...
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Like Virginia's confusing system of numbering secondary roads. They're numbered in the 600s and 700s, and they repeat...
A few years ago, when visiting my old stomping grounds in Maryland, I took a very short hike out of Gathland State Park: a side trail north to the shelter, up the access trail to the AT and back to...
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Lost Cove (along with Dudleytown, Conn) plays a prominent part in the novel...
[QUOTE=Baby Blue]Panorama is closed, but you can still park there and get water from the registration station[/QUOTE
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Panorama was...
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Is there a link to the "sex thread?" Could be interesting.
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Sometime in the eighties, I heard of someone called the Yo Yo who did this. I guess that was his trail name.
Did you have Medical Insurance/Coverage when you hiked?
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I don't understand any distinction between having insurance on a hike and...
[QUOTE=focker]New to the area and looking for a list of say 5 of the closest access points to blacksburg virginia. directions from closest highway would be great too, or coordinates or both. dont...
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It's an out and back trail of about 0.60 miles. But even if it was a loop, purists would go out they way they came in, so as not to miss...
There is supposed to be train travel to Glacier, and this is how many people end up getting there. You still have to make the border from...
start slow....8-10 mile days....then by NEELS GAP/WALASI YI CENTER...
you'll start feeling your "own pace"......ship the "dont need its" home.......
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Thank you. I'm glad there's at least one other person in the country that still uses miles instead of hours to measure the distance...
The blazing was excellent; I had no trouble following the trail. It was so cool to walk through places like Dark Entry Ravine (waterfalls, an old sluiceway), Cathedral Pines, and over Mohawk Mt,...
[QUOTE=Lugnut]It's kind of interesting that hikers/outdoors people tend to be liberal.
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Some of them aren't, however. Hunters and...
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You want a purist?
I have the two-volume hardback set of AT stories. One of the tales therein is about this guy who starts out from...
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So if you want to save babies, it's OK to kill adults? I doubt that anyone killed or injured by the bomb at the Olympics had anything...
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In Damascus? Where, Lonewolf? Just kidding LOL
I like it just fine here in Pearisburg. I can see cows out my bathroom window. I...
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What do you mean by BRP? If Blue Ridge Parkway, it's nowhere near Bland or Pearisburg.
I live in Pearisburg, am retired and can do...
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Harper's Ferry after dark lends a new meaning to the term "ghost town." You could fire a cannon down High Street and not hit anybody.
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