Pen Mar Park to Pine Knob Shelter – 17.7 miles
Tuesday November 14th, 2017
This was a fun hike… I set out with Rock Turtle, who started at a different location than I did because she’d already done some of the miles that I was going to do, so she basically had an 18 mile head start on me. The plan was to finish and meet at the Blackburn AT Center in Virginia. The plan didn’t quite pan out but we came close! By the time I got started from Pen Mar it was almost dark. I hiked 2.8 miles into the dark to High Rocks and then was offered a ride by a very nice lady which I accepted, although she didn’t know where I was going when she offered me the ride and frankly neither did I! She ended up driving me back to my car which was only about a mile away straight down the road but the ride seemed to take forever…she talked and talked and ended up giving me a postcard painting that her husband had done. She was apparently very taken by me and I began to wonder I weren’t being kidnapped. Finally we arrived back at my car and she released me unharmed. I slept in my car that night and hiked back up the road to High Rocks in the morning to resume my hike. It was rockier and more treacherous than I’d anticipated and I almost began to wonder if I hadn’t taken a wrong turn and ended up back in PA. I finally arrived at Pine Knob Shelter and hunkered down for a long cold night.
Wherever I May Roam 