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Re: [at-l] Re: Greenbrier River Trail

Well .... maybe I'll reconsider and try the canal. To the west. :-)
Thanks.


At 12:34 PM 5/3/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Daryl,
>
>The beginning of the canal starts in DC and it ends in 184.5 miles later in
>Cumberland Maryland.  The further west you go, the less people you can
find on
>the trail.  There are hardly any people in places where you need the trail
>guide to find the trail heads.  I spent a beautiful day in October 1996 on a
>portion of the canal west of Hancock Maryland.  It was one of the most
>gorgeous days of hiking I have ever had.  I saw no one at all except a lonely
>guy in a row boat on the river.  I was a stretch on the canal in the rain  on
>Veterans Day in 1996 about 6 miles east of Paw Paw West Virginia, where I
>stopped and cried because I had to turn around a walk back to my car.  No
>people ......just wondrous birds and woods.  It is then that I decided that I
>wanted to start long distance hiking and take up back packing and that there
>were other trails to try.
>
>             choovers
>
>
             


                           Daryl Cline WB4YEX
                            Harrisonburg, Va.
                  Web page: <http://www.cfw.com/~clines>
   Outdoor pictures:  <http://www.cfw.com/~clines/outdoors> UPDATED 4/28/98

                               
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