Hiking Shenandoah NP with the ODATC…
Andy Thompson
Jun 02, 2008
...That’s the Old Dominion Appalachian Trail Club. I hiked with a group from the club yesterday in Shenandoah NP. What a beautiful day with a good group of people. I’ll have a column on the hike and the club this Friday.
I highly recommend the hike we did. It was an 8.4-mile loop that started at the AT at Milepost 84 on Skyline Drive. We hooked up with Doyles River Trail and then returned on Jones Run Trail. We ran into a black bear mother and cub, a rattlesnake and a whitetail deer—all in about 4.5 hours of hiking. Pretty cool stuff.
That’s ODATC president David Olli in the picture above trying to get a shot of Jones Run Falls.
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The ODATC maintians the 19.4-mile section of the AT from Reed’s Gap to Rockfish Gap. They do trail maintenance trips once a month.
Andy of Richmond
Jun. 5, 2008 at 01:37 PM
I am so jealous! Can’t wait for the column. Does the ODATC do trail maintenance, etc. as well? That could be a cool (and incredibly challenging) thing to try. In New Hampshire it involves hauling boulders thousands of feet in elevation. Yikes.
Julie of Philadelphia
Jun. 3, 2008 at 04:20 PM
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