Hiking exploits and whatnot
Feeling our oats after last week’s Triumphant Return to Hiking on the rollercoaster section of the AT, I cruised AllTrails for “hard” trails within a tolerable drive, glared suspiciously at the elevation maps, and made a list of the ones with no apparent Giant Hip-Killing Flat Spots.
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After a two-year hiatus for Karen’s hips being Very Bad When Walking/Existing, Karen had developed the opinion that She Would Hike, Damn It. It seemed like the hips were more amenable to difficult terrain with constant elevation changes and rocky, uneven surfaces, so the natural choice was the Appalachian Trail: Roller Coasters Section.
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Don’t be fooled by the elevation map! Stretching its 2700 feet of elevation over a pleasantly wooded 14 miles, Pen Mar to Old Forge is a gently rolling death march, not the alpine jungle gym it may appear to be.
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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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I make no excuses or apologies for the gratuitous number of waterfall photos that follow. You’ve been warned.
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