>hike the standing stone trail
>I wonder why it's called that
>2 hours later
>turn around in the middle of a field of boulders where they are all vertically aligned
>oh
also, northern pa isn't like that
its only center/eastern pa that's rocky
the appy trail doesn't really go through the prettiest parts of PA

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>>2869201
ezpz I love that shit

>>2869201
99% of this dogshit trail looks like this fuck the least coast

>>2869288
Northern PA is where it's at. The mountain laurel should be blooming soon which makes it even better. June and October are my favorite times to visit.

>>2869289
yeah it's the best. there's barely a difference between hiking and low-level rock climbing

>>2869299
its pretty awful in midsummer, and harshly cold and icy in winter, so its a limited season, but its a nice place

>>2869299
It's mountain yanny.

>>2869201
trail on the rocks... home...

>>2869337
Winter's extremely comfy if you and your vehicle can handle the icy curvy roads. Summer can be a bitch, I'll give you that. Nothing like hiking over 1k vert/mile (sometimes over 2k/mile) in shirt-drenching mugginess to make you question your life's choices.

>>2869403
ive had plenty of mishaps where a road had no snow or ice on it, and then a mile or two in suddenly snow and ice and by then too late to turn around and then 30 minutes of terrifying driving on snow/ice. I mean this is partially cuz my family dragged their heels on getting all terrain tires for all our cars and made me do it in all season tires with 4wd, which um works but barely.

All terrain isn't bad. I've been up to ramsey mountain (east side of pine creek gorge) in winter and pa has some bad roads but most of the dirt roads aren't too bad, and they don't outright close off stuff for winter like some places do.

Yeah I've done PA in july a few times and its just not worth it. I haven't actually hiked bottom to top or top to bottom of the pine creek gorge yet.

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>making a talus field walkable confuses and scares the american

>>2869437
they do this on the appalachian trail and its not as hard as climbing up rocks but it's not that much easier either
I absolutely loathe scree slopes/talus/whatever rocks

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>>2869437
most northeast forests are second generation old growth, which is why you see old stone walls in the forest almost everywhere. don't worry about how many stone staircases and ladders we have in our forests, it is plenty.