We hiked into the Canaan Mountain area on September 5-7, for a 3 day / 2 night backpacking trip, on a route outlined by Mr.
Hyker at
midatlantichikes.com. We started at the
Blackwater State Park lodge parking lot, and stayed the first night in a hiking shelter located on the Railroad Grade trail. The view from Table Rock Overlook was very nice, well worth the extra couple of miles it added to the trip. We decided, due to the weather, to hike back to the shelter located at the conjunction of Plantation and Davis trails for the second night. The last day was a short 3 mile hike back to the lodge via Davis and Yellow Birch trail. Overall, the was an easy hike. Plantation trail is flat and straight as an arrow. The only portion that I did not enjoy was the time spent on
CLR13, a gravel forest road, full of bear hunters, their pickup trucks, and their dogs. We did not see any other hikers on the trail the entire trip. After returning to the lodge, we drove out to Lindy Point and made the short hike out to the overlook, which offers a fantastic view of the
Blackwater Canyon.
3 comments:
Love your photos of the beautiful green timbered hills of West Virginia from Table Rock. I was there on 9/10/08 but it was cloudy. A trip report is at http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7970298&highlight=dolly+sods . For the last 16 years I've lived in the Pacific Northwest but still miss the central Appalachians, especially in May and October.
duroc,
Thanks for the comments. It was also overcast most of the time we were there. These photos were taken with my point and shoot camera. The quality of the pics would've been better if taken with my Nikon DLSR, but the forcast was calling for rain, so I left it at home. By the way, nice trip report!
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