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  1. 04-02-2008, 12:47 #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by weary View Post
    I read Wingfoot's guide and kept watching for the roller coaster, but never really found it. Suddenly I was in Harpers Ferry, where they were reenacting the Civil War.

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    Are you sure it wasn't a flashback.
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    Just found out that the caretakers there are now Hopeful and Redwing from 2005. They had been caretakers at the Blackburn Center, but have moved. Great people and have a daughter called "Hikelet".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Hat View Post
    Just found out that the caretakers there are now Hopeful and Redwing from 2005. They had been caretakers at the Blackburn Center, but have moved. Great people and have a daughter called "Hikelet".
    I hope that's the daughter's trail name......
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackCloud View Post
    I hope that's the daughter's trail name......
    yes, trail name, as are "redwing" and "hopeful".. that's why I said "called" not "named"....
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    Quote Originally Posted by weary View Post
    I read Wingfoot's guide and kept watching for the roller coaster, but never really found it. Suddenly I was in Harpers Ferry, where they were reenacting the Civil War.

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    If there hadn't been a sign AFTER the roller coaster warning southbounders about it, I wouldn't have noticed it either. I believe the name is an attempt to lend interest to an otherwise fairly unremarkable area.
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  6. 06-09-2008, 19:30 #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by Appalachian Tater View Post
    If there hadn't been a sign AFTER the roller coaster warning southbounders about it, I wouldn't have noticed it either. I believe the name is an attempt to lend interest to an otherwise fairly unremarkable area.
    Definately one of the dullest sections of the whole trail if not #1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by A-Train View Post
    Definately one of the dullest sections of the whole trail if not #1.
    Yeah, somewhat. I was just mildly annoyed... but in truth I was anxious to get to Front Royal, and anxious to get to Shenandoah N.P. Plus it was hot. And Dicks Dome shelter sucked. So my patience was running low...
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    We met them at Blackburn a few years back, great people.

    The rollercoaster is quite dull which is why we did in autumn in late October and I'm glad we did. For a thru hiker, you probably would never even notice it unless you are currently doing it in this heat.



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  9. 08-30-2009, 17:58 #29
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    Planning a hike there this fall everything still the same?
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    Yes. Blackburn is open. Bears Den still run by Hopeful and redwing. Very nice hosts. Still $25 for night, pizza, shower, laundry, coke and a B&J.
    .....Someday, like many others who joined WB in the early years, I may dry up and dissapear....
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    That will be a sweet hike.
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