Shelter & Trail Part of Adventure Camp

As they have done for the past couple of years, the local Whitetail Ski Resort is offering a teenager adventure camp in the summer later this month.  The kids will kayak, fish, hike, and camp...with the hiking part being along the Tuscarora Trail and the camping part being at the Reese Hollow Shelter where I am overseer.

The front of the Whitetail brochure:

My first Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) group work trip was to construct the fire pit at then brand-spanking-new Reese Hollow Shelter in 2013 so I can well imagine the tired kids hanging out at the first at the end of their trip.  This is the welcome sight they will see as they make the last turn off the Tuscarora for the 1 mile downhill to the shelter:

Image credit Gary

Whitetail's web site is here if you want to learn more of the details of this adventure camp.  Please note that I have no financial interest in this activity, though I'm wholeheartedly endorse it.

Where I Run: To the Garage

Not my garage; that's attached to the north end of my house (it'd be a rather short run).  But running to and from the garage that works on my vehicles, which is situated some 10 miles away--what I'd call a perfect "destination run."

My truck was in for its annual PA state inspection, and picking it up was presenting some logistical difficulties.  So after dropping Mister Tristan (the 5-year-old human being, not the blog) off at preschool, I had about 2:15 before I again had to be back for pick-up. 

So I ran down for the truck.  I say "down" just because the direction is south.  I know it's no more down than it is up--much like it seems like the Nile River cannot possibly flow north...it's uphill, for crying out loud!--but nevertheless that's the way it feels.

Along the way I snapped a shot of the Whitetail Ski Resort (Mercersburg, PA), as viewed from near my house across the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks:

 

 

Then the local school district's environmental center, where a large limestone spring rises, forms a pool, then eventually exits via a very cold 5' diameter water wheel: