Saturday, August 09, 2025

Yellow Branch Falls, Issaqueena Falls, Rail Trail, and Stumphouse Tunnel


 This hike didn't go as planned.  After finishing Yellow Branch and going across the street to the Stumphouse Tunnel area it starting raining and thundering.  We went over to issaqueena Falls first in the stumphouse tunnel area because it's a short walk. Then we checked the radar and it looked like it was going north of us so we decided to continue on the rail trail.  We got to Middle tunnel we're able to go inside and see all the cave crickets in the ceiling which is always pretty neat.  Then we continued on the rail trail but didn't get very far because it started pouring on us and didn't stop.  We decided to turn around and not continue on the trail. We did finish up at stumphouse tunnel.  The yellow Branch section was 3.3 M and 412 EG.  The part that we got to do in stumphouse was 3.5 M and 360 EG.

















Monday, August 04, 2025

DuPont Stat forest - Mine Mtn, Laurel Ridge and Fawn Lake

 I started my GPS tracker a little late so I think this hike was more like 7 M and 650 EG.  We saw many people swimming and hanging out at Fawn Lake.  It's the orange track below.