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| Hiking | 5.65 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 5.65 Miles | 2 Hrs 58 Mns | | 1.93 mph |
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| no partners | | Having had a late night the night before catching up with friends I don't get to see very often, I did this later in the afternoon/evening. The weather all day on Sunday was perfect, and the heat and humidity died down a bit from the week before. This was my last full day in PA, so it seemed like a shame not to get out and get at least a short hike in.
Deer Lakes Park is a 15-20 min drive from my mom's house, so I decided to go there. Most of my time at this park when I was younger was either fishing in the lakes, or kite flying in the fields in the spring. Nine years ago I did a couple hikes while visiting. I had previously checked my routes from those hikes and looked at a park map and plotted out a route on RS.
I hiked the south half of the park, hiking mostly the White Trail, which is marked by white blazes on the trees. The trails in this park are extremely muddy, moreso than even the Rachel Carson Trail, which I found surprising. They're also a bit overgrown in places, and there is some tree fall, probably from the recent storms this summer.
It's mostly "green tunnel" hiking in this park. There are a few fields and power lines that the trail crosses, giving a few views. There was also one spot where there was a clearing in the trees and you could see several miles out. Again I saw another deer, making this the first time I've seen a deer on every hike I did, but again it was gone before I could even reach for my camera.
I had originally planned to take a longer route back to my car, but since I was nearing the 3 hour mark already at 7:30pm, I decided to take a couple short cuts. One was through part of a disc golf course, and the other was directly up a steep hill to where I knew another trail was. The steep hill also had some this vegetation with some serious thorns. It took a little effort to figure the path of least resistance, but I got through it and saved some time.
Everything went without incident until literally the last 3 steps on the trail, where I slid on the mud and landed on my left side, hurting my shoulder a bit and covering most of my left side in mud. I had to go over to a stream between 2 lakes and get the majority of the mud off of me before heading back. The next day I dealt with a sore shoulder while having to fling around suitcases going to the airport to get back to AZ.
This concluded the hikes for my PA visit. I have all my routes saved in my mapping program in my computer and I look forward to continuing hiking more trails and sections of the bigger trails that I haven't done yet on my upcoming visits. |
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