Tom and Dale were on the final leg of their Horse-Shoe trail hike. Along with five (5) more Appalachian Mountain Club -AMC members (or I fondly called us AM-Seers), we started our hike along the Stony Creek on Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.We had a gradual ascent on our first hill, seeing a snake on one of our stops, then we made a detour to the Fire Tower which provided us nice vistas of the Appalachian Trail, a Lake and a dam, and of course the Horse-Shoe Trail. We had lunch at the foot of the tower and head to the 'Boulder City' -- a section of the trail where you will be traversing a field of large boulders. At end of this rocky walk is the start of the second ascent on a rocky trail up to the very end of the Horsh-Shoe Trail.
We ended our hike with a little more than 3-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail (of course, rocky trails too). I actually joked that maybe they should call the Pennsylvania section of the AT to be 'Rocky Pennsylvania' :)
Side Trip: Back to the Udder Restaurant in Lancaster County for ice cream
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