Ricketts Glen - part 2

After hiking down Glen Leigh you hit a point called Waters Meet where the river merges with another river. You turn and hike up Ganoga Glen.

Trail Map

Erie Falls

Mohican Falls

Delaware Falls

Seneca Falls

Ganoga Falls

Cayuga Falls

Oneida Falls

Mohawk Falls

Ricketts Glen - part 1

We spent Memorial Day hiking at Ricketts Glen state park in eastern Pennsylvania. There is a hiking trail that runs along side (and sometimes in) a river down one steep glen then back up another. The trail is only about three and a half miles long but drops about 800 vertical feet then climbs back up the same amount. It's partly a trail and partly steep stairs built out of rocks. There are about 20 waterfalls along the trail. It took us three hours to hike the trail and we were exhausted by the end.

Onondaga Falls

F. L. Ricketts Falls

Shawnee Falls

Huron Falls

Ozone Falls

R.B. Ricketts Falls

B. Reynolds Falls

Wyandot Falls (in the upper right of the photo)

Gettysburg

The second day of our weekend we spent at Gettysburg touring the battlefield, by car and Segway.

Where the battle started on the first day, July 1st, 1863.

McPherson Barn (in the background)

General John Reynolds..

Eternal Light Peace Memorial.

The fence line atop Seminary Ridge.

The view from the top of Little Round Top. Since it was Memorial Day weekend there were a lot of people.

Segway practice/road test before they let us out on the open road. I'll admit a few cones were run over before we all passed.

Racing through the National Park at 10 miles per hours. I was usually the last one in the group.

The view of Gettysburg from the Observation Tower on top of Culps hill.

A cannon at Culps Hill.

Our fearless leader checking that we were all still with her.

The best Ice Cream shop in town, we of course returned later in the car and had ice cream.

The Pennsylvania Memorial.

Me on top of the Pennsylvania Memorial.

The view from Cemetery Ridge. Hard to believe so many fought and so many died in such a small piece of land.

Cheat Mountain Salamander Train

We decided to get away for the weekend and do something different so we drove to West Virginia and took the train up into the mountains. 

This wasn't in West Virgina but just outside our bedroom window 5 minutes before we left. There were four different families of Geese and these were the cutest.

Elkins Depot, Elkins WV. The weather didn't look too good before we left and we expected rain but the day turned out perfect.

Pre-boarding entertainment.

Racing along once we left town (actually we were only going maybe 15 miles per hour, I just set a really slow shutter speed to make it look faster).

Entering the tunnel under Cheat Mountain.

Typical view both going up the mountain and back down, change the trees and water and add or subtract a few guys fishing for trout and we had 5 hours of looking at this.

High Falls of the Cheat (not high as in the size, high up on the mountain, that's what they told us).

They weren't very high, but they were pretty wide.

About to get run over!!!!

View out the back of the train as we were going through Cheat Mountain tunnel. It's all built with 8x8 wood timbers.

On the drive later in the day, from Elkins to Hagerstown MD. The mustang is still pretty clean, probably because it got washed the night before when we drove though two intense thunderstorms on the way to WV.

The view from the top of one of the mountains in WV we drove over on the way to Hagerstown. It was a beautiful, twisty drive through the mountains.