Over Labor Day weekend I went backpacking with my brothers, Calvin and Nathan, and my 78 year old grandfather. This was Grandpa’s idea, and we all were more than gung ho* about it. He has made trips like this since he was a boy, and despite his age, he is still extremely active.
This was [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 2, 2007
Backpaking in the Backwoods of Pennsylvania
October 2, 2007
Backwoods PA, Day One
Saturday September 1, 2007
First night out on our backpacking trip in the Allegany Nat’l. Forrest (just north of Cook Forrest).
We hiked around 6 or 7 miles [today].
Aunt Ruth dropped us off on [Route] 66, and we took a little connector trail to the Nat’l. Forrest. We had some trouble finding Salmon Creek, and we needed [...]
October 2, 2007
Backwoods PA, Day Two
Sunday September 2, 2007
Long day today. Didn’t get a very nice sleep last night; it got down into the 40’s probably. Nathan and I shared [a] tent. Poor Calvin slept by himself; should’ve joined us, but he didn’t want to wake us. We are all going to be in [the same] tent tonight [Calvin, Nathan, [...]
October 2, 2007
Backwoods PA, Day Three
Monday September 3, 2007
Our long day was better than I thought it might have been. Yesterday I said that the third day was either going to make or break us. Proved to make us.
If I reckon it right, we hiked somewhere between 12 and 15 miles [today]. We hiked through a tornado swath from 1985. [...]
October 2, 2007
Backwoods PA, Day Four
Tuesday September 4, 2007
We have reached our destination, the Heart’s Content picnic area. We [had] originally planned to arrive here at 12 noon, but changed it to 6 PM on Monday because we thought we couldn’t make it. We made excellent time yesterday, however, and we arrived at Heart’s Content around 1:30, just an hour [...]
