Day 39 of AT in PA NOBO

Swatara Gap (1,185.3) to Black Swatara Creek Campsite (1,207.1)
Total Miles: 21.8

The six of us got up at roughly the same time this morning and all headed out by 8am.
Walked across the street through the old Swatara Gap Canal area and then headed 3 miles uphill.

Once we hit the ridge-line, where we would be for the next 30 miles, the “Rocksylvania” part of Pennsylvania finally started (see pic). The trail the rest of today and all tomorrow were strewn with these medium sized jagged rocks going every which direction. Very difficult to find solid foot placement. You get about a 10 minute reprieve every hour, but then you’re right back into rock city. The tough part mentally is that the trail in this section is pretty flat, so you can visualize going fast if the trail were just a nice bed of pine needles. But dang, so close yet so far!

On a few sections of the trail today, we were actually walking on beds of coal rather than the typical stones and rocks. See video & pics. Very cool.

I found a nice, flat tenting spot at an existing campsite right on trail this evening. Windy with temps getting down into the low 30’s. A cold one for my last night. Czytaj więcej