Re: [at-l] Highlights of the 300 mile Allegheny Trail hike

["Charles W. Davidson" <wb4pan@mindspring.com>]

It was a great hike. I hope I have soon good photographs of those jets
flying below us while we camped in the fire tower.

chase


MrsGorp@aol.com wrote:
> 
> It's a gold blazed trail where you'll see more UPS trucks along West Virginia
> Trail 701 than other hikers.
> 
> The Allegheny Trail shares treadway with a part of the American Discovery
> Trail and the Greenbrier River Trail.
> 
> The month of May was a perfect time to hike. Dogwood, apple, magnolia, and
> azalea were in bloom.  Lots of wildflowers too, red and white trillium,
> moccasin flower, fringed polygala, violets, columbine, mallow, buttercups,
> may apples, squawroot, and vinca.
> 
> Waterfalls along the Cheat River and of course at Blackwater Falls State Park.
> 
> Virgin timber along Shavers Mtn.  An interpretive nature trail where we
> learned two new terms "hummocks" and "stilts."
> 
> Wildlife seen, skunk, deer, turkey, wood chucks, an infant squirrel eyes not
> yet opened.  Saw a couple of little garter snakes and one dead rat snake.
> Golden trout and rainbow.  Mallards, great blue heron, red papa cardinal,
> infant tree swallows in blue bird nesting boxes, Canadian geese and goslings,
> ruffed grouse.
> 
> And lastly, the Hanging Rock Raptor Observatory where the silence was broken
> by Air Force Jets on maneuvers, just like a scene out of Top Gun.
> 
> Root Beer Floats Rule!
> Cin
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