Destination: PA 325 Parking Lot Start Location: Doyle Hotel, Duncannon, PA Trip Miles: 24.9 Some random stuff… Check your packing list, check your pack and do it again and again. Enough said. The Doyle Hotel in Duncannon is famous with Appalachian Trail hikes. It is over 120 years old and was once owned by Adolphus Busch, co-founder of…
2021 Appalachian Trail III – Day Four – Unexpected Ending
Wednesday, 6 October Destination: PA 325 Parking Lot Today’s Miles: 3.3 Start Location: Horse Shoe Trail Campsite Trip Miles: 24.9 Now the tale can be told. At the shelter our first night out as we were settling in, Bob realized that he had left the poles for his tent at home. There was no way to set up his…
2021 Appalachian Trail III – Day Three – Horse Shoe Trail Campsite
Tuesday, 5 October Destination: Horse Shoe Trail Campsite Today’s Miles: 10.0 Start Location: Peters Mountain Shelter Trip Miles: 21.6 Last night just before sundown a hiker came to the shelter. He went down for water and it was dark when he came back up. He is from Asheville and started his hike in June from Maine. He stayed in…
2021 Appalachian Trail III – Day Two – Peters Mountain Shelter
Monday, 4 October Destination: Peters Mountain Shelter Today’s Miles: 6.7 Start Location: Clarks Ferry Shelter Trip Miles: 11.6 Bob and I awoke to a very light rain. It did not last long but we took our time making coffee, eating breakfast and packing. Since we stayed in the shelter, no wet tents to pack. We started hiking about 9:30….
2021 Appalachian Trail III – Day One – The Doyle in Duncannon
Sunday, 3 October Destination: Clarks Ferry Shelter Today’s Miles: 4.9 Start Location: Duncannon, PA Trip Miles: 4.9 The Appalachian Trail section from the Doyle in Duncannon to the 501 Shelter will complete a continuous section from the start of the AT in Georgia to near Palmerton, PA for me, about 1,260 miles of the trail. This leaves me with…
2021 Allegheny Front Trail – Epilogue
Sunday, 18 July From my photo, Bob identified the snake we had seen earlier as an Eastern Milksnake. The Allegheny Front is the major southeast- or east-facing escarpment (steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations) in the Allegheny Mountains…
2021 Allegheny Front Trail – Day Five – Finishing Up
Thursday, 22 July Destination: Rattlesnake Road (PA 504) Today’s Miles: 5.7 Start Location: Smays Run Trip Miles: 42.2 The official length of the Allegheny Front Trail is listed at 41.5 miles. Bob and I used a Garmin watch with GPS to track distance each day. I will post the tracks in the Epilogue which summarizes our hike. The 42.2…
2021 Allegheny Front Trail – Day Four – What In the Yellow Blazes?
Wednesday, 21 July Destination: Smays Run Campsite Today’s Miles: 8.8 Start Location: Wolf Rocks Campsite Trip Miles: 37.5 I must have slept more soundly than Bob last night. I heard a whippoorwill once last night. Bob heard it several times through the night. We had a very little bit of rain overnight but everything was dry when we got…
2021 Allegheny Front Trail – Day Three – Wolf Rocks
Tuesday, 20 July Destination: Wolf Rocks Campsite Today’s Miles: 9.7 Start Location: Six Mile Run Campsite Trip Miles: 28.7 The Trail Gods were looking down on us yesterday. After passing up two or three so-so campsites, Bob and I went aways without seeing another spot. We were on the steep side of Six Mile Run. We even considered wading…
2021 Allegheny Front Trail – Day Two – Six Mile Run
Monday, 19 July Destination: Six Mile Run Campsite Today’s Miles: 9.9 Start Location: Benner Run Campsite Trip Miles: 19.0 Last night was great for sleeping. The clouds finally broke, Bob and I saw a little sun before it got dark. Low temperature was 54 degrees so it was pleasant. We woke up to sunshine. Coffee, breakfast and taking our…