Clear Branch Blazing

Bob, George, Earl, Larry, Erin and two volunteers, Amy and Nyssa.  We teamed up with the CCC for this hike.  What a great day!  I was a long hike, about 8.9 miles, but worth it.  The temperature was perfect for a long hike.  We began blazing as the Clear Branch loop cut off and eventually blazed all of Clear Branch.  There is another loop that takes off from Clear Branch which we started to blaze.  Since Clear Branch was blazed in a single blue strip, we decided to blaze the secondary loop in two verticle blue stripes.  We were unable to finish this secondary loop as the day was fading fast.  View pictures by clicking above or here.

Stringers Ridge

The hikers were Nance Jo O., Bob M. and Earl H..  We decided to hike Stringers Ridge and since we had already hiked a portion of it previously, we decided to try a different route.  The weather was overcast and slightly cool.  As the hike progressed we ran across some dog walkers and a group of trail runners.  A note of interest...Stringers Ridge is composed of many interlaced trails.  While it is hard to get truly lost, trying to navigate by map proved nearly impossible.  We decided that we will take a couple more hikes to the area and try some of the other trails and try to put together a GPS map of the ridge.