This is pretty, but IT'S THE WRONG WAY.
First trip of the fall (I know this is late but WE GOT A NEW PUPPY so totally cray-cray) out to Ohiopyle and the LHHT start point thingy. Overnight parking was easy-ish to find (asked directions YES I AM A MAN) but spent a nice hour wandering along the great Allegheny Passage looking for the LHHT access.
D'OH it was the other way across the railroad tracks, behind a bar down a gravel road OBVIOUSLY.
So I had 4 hours of light left to make it ~7 miles or so to the shelter. This would have been easier if I had anything like cardio going for me. Infarction Incline was tough enough, let alone Heart Attack Hill.
What the Yough is SUPPOSED to look like
I actually made it before dark, but finding trees to hang the hammock from took for evs. Glad it wasn't rainy or I woulda been....rained on (I AM A CODER NOT A WORD PERSON).
Lessons learned this go around:
- Still need more time to find the right trees
- Forget the bear bag hang and just bring Ursack and tie it to a tree (wound up hiding food bag in bear-proof trash containers -- just open the back and place outside the big garbage bag I KNOW GROSS BUT IT WORKS)
- You can go farther than you think you can. Me, on the other hand, not as much. But getting marginally better
I am sure these will all need to be repeated ad infinitum until they sink in.
The next morning was a lot easier but it took a lot longer. And I think I got lapped by a trail runner.
