Along the Walk North...: Pictures from Harpers Ferry, WV to Port Clinton, PA

Again, these are backwards chronologically, so you may want to start from the bottom...

People say pennies are useless, but if I had a penny for every leg on each of the millipedes I've seen on this trip, I would never work another day in my life.

These are photos of Gypsy-moths, which are actually a big problem for parts of the Appalachian Mountains. There's an overpopulation of these things and they eat all the healthy leaves off the trees. There have been signs posted in PA and southwest VA along the A.T. informing hikers that there will be airplanes dropping insecticides to help control the Gypsy-moth population.

A view from "the Pinnacle," which is supposedly the best view in all of PA. At noon on a beautiful Saturday, I was more awestruck by the large crowd.

My cat-food can stove hard at work

For about three days in PA it looked like this all day

Caleb crossing a bridge

A family cemetery from the 1850s

Crossing the Susquehanna River after pizza and groceries in Duncannon, PA...those clouds don't look good.

Sunset through the trees

Pennsylvania farmlands...nice to be off a mountain for a short time

Caleb sprinting towards me on a flat portion of the trail

The Midpoint Marker

I'm in da' club!

Pretending not to struggle during the half-gallon challenge

An old building that was once used to store firearms during the Revolutionary War

Poisonous Snake

a chipmunk

Pennsylvania rocks

non-poisonous snake

Spider that was in a shelter we decided not to sleep in

Mason-Dixon Line, crossing into PA

There's something about a sunrise in the woods...

This is the position the trail-runner found us in on the Annapolis Rocks and said he had to take a picture. After the picture he said, "Only thru-hikers..."