Yeah! The Appalachain Trail! We are almost in the middle of the dang thing. All told, the Appalachian Trail runs just 44 miles through Maryland. Although, I do feel very fortunate to have it as close as it is. We went to a place called Pen Mar, MD - on the border of Pennsylvania and Maryland to hike up to High Rock along the South Mountain. Such inventive names around here. :)
Along the Appalachian Trail there are some very interesting geological features. In this particular rock you can see some quartzite that filled in fissures on the original rock during metamoriphism. To a geologist this is one cool rock. All throughout this hike I kept making John look at rocks.
Here are me and Chops sitting before a giant boulder. There were just a bunch of these giant rocks all along the trail.
This trail was pretty tough going. As you can see, we had to take several breaks along the way. On the last half mile we went up 440 feet - now that's an aerobic exercise!
At the top of our journey we took in the beauty of Western Maryland - you can probably also see Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but I am not quite sure...
This is a very popular hang gliding site. There were no hang gliders the day we were there, but this is one a of the very few sites that allow hang gliders on the AT in Maryland. It is such a beautiful site to take in - although you can get pretty close to the edge and that is a little nerve wracking. :)
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