Hiking exploits and whatnot
Right off Route 29, south of Columbia, MD, lies a gravel parking area into which you might optimistically squeeze four cars. Scrabble down a steep, muddy slope, over a narrow stream on rocks, back up the other side, and you’re on the Gorman Stream Valley Trail.
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Tucked away off a residential street in Clarksville, near River Hill High School, the Wildlife and South Wind Trail Loop is an easy 4.4 miles of soft and relatively flat ground through deciduous forest, fields of tall grasses, and along a river.
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No, not the pointy one in DC. Out on the Appalachian Trail in Boonsboro, there is a short squatty one made of stones. In an
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For my friend Kim’s birthday, we cloistered ourselves at her family’s cabin at Deep Creek Lake. One of the weekend’s activities was Lostland Run Trail
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On the third day of our stint in Idyllwild, we tackled San Jacinto Peak by way of the Palm Springs Aerial Tram in Mt. San Jacinto State Park. With the road out of Idyllwild to the north permanently closed by a mudslide, we had to drive 1.5 hours south, through the desert, and up north again to the Aerial Tram.
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