submitted by Michael Seth
Claire Cline, Dave Borszich, Pam Heinrich, Heather Denny, Dave Bennick, James Fye, Theresia Barger, Anna McAllister, Lori Silvestri, David Schoemaker, Don Blume, Stephen Brong, Lisa and Glen Gray (their first PATC hike) and Jean Fraser met hike leader Michael Seth at the Food Lion in Elkton at 9:00. We carpooled for the 12 minute drive to the trailhead. The weather was a fine break from the recent rains, sunny but not too humid, with temperatures in the upper seventies. There was a lot of water in Boones Run making for a scenic hike along the series of cascades. It also made the seven stream crossings which we had to do twice an interesting challenge. Some people made all of the them with dry feet, some just waded across. We made the 1200 foot climb up to Kaylor Knob doing a little clipping the first half of the way. We saw some beautiful yellow fringe orchids along the trail and someone spotted the old CCC marker on the trail. We had lunch at the top where the rather creepy can with a woman's ashes was no where to be found as in past hikes. On an earlier hike, one person thought it was a geocache and put her hand inside, at least that didn't happen this time. We met several people on top from the Massanutten Resort, but there were the only ones we met that day. After coming down the mountain we visited Boones Run Shelter where its maintainer, Jim Fye, gave us a little tour. At the end of the hike we went to the swimming hole, eight people waded or plunged in; all reported that they were glad to have done so, the water was so refreshing cold. We got back to our cars shortly after 3:30.
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