[at-l] PA Rock Question

[sws4024 at charter.net (SWS)]

I found the last miles from just south of Port Clinton to just before Delaware Water Gap to be 
the worst. I think it was because I was ready to be done with them. The trail seemed to 
purposefully detour through every rockpile it could find...for example, just south of Port 
Clinton, the AT used to follow the nice gas pipeline right-of-way road across ten miles of ridge 
or so toward Port Clinton. Now it zigs and zags across that same road but stumbles through 
rockpile after rockpile.

But I think a lot of it has to do with your mental state and how many miles per day you are 
trying to make. If you are hiking 10-12 miles per day the rocks aren't horrible. If you are 
trying to do 20 miles per day you get beat us worse, so they probably seem worse than they 
really are. I dislocated my big toe just north of Leroy Smith Shelter on a 20 miler into 
Delaware Water Gap when I slipped in the wet grass and kicked one of those half-buried rocks. 
Naturally I thought the rocks that day were horrible!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felix" <AThiker@smithville.net>
To: "at-list" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] PA Rock Question


Adkhiker2003@wmconnect.com wrote:

>Where are the rocks the worst in PA?  I have hiked PA  from the Mason Dixon
>Line North to 183...  Are  the rocks worse North of 183 or about the same?
>

They are probably worse from 183 north...but, NJ has 'em, too. And, to
be honest, they aren't as much a deal as folx like to make 'em.


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