Vigorous Hike for May 13, AT Southbound and Back from Rt 9 (Keys Gap) (REISSUE WITH ELEVATION AND DISTANCE)
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Edward Cook
May 11, 2025, 3:51:19 PMMay 11
to Vigorous Hikers, ap....@aol.com, Barbara L. Jones
***NOTE TO ALL: I neglected to include the hike distance and elevation in my original email.
Distance: 15+ miles
Elevation Gain: 2300 ft
Weather forecast is not improving. It still looks like a good chance of rain, but perhaps we'll get lucky with a strategic gap in the showers..... we will see.
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Tuesday, May 13th - **8:15am** - (PATC Map 7). We will be starting and ending this hike at the AT Keys Gap Parking Lot off of Route 9 where we last met in March, but now going the other direction.
DIRECTIONS:
Hike Southbound on the AT for approximately 7.5 miles to the Wilson Gap area. Then proceed back Northbound for about a mile before diverting down the hill to the right at the marked side trail to the Blackburn Trail Center where we will have lunch at the Hikers Cabin. After lunch, proceed back up the hill to the AT on a separate spur trail from Blackburn then hike North and return to Keys Gap Parking.
We will meet at the AT parking lot at the VA/WV state line on Rt 9. This is on the right heading out of Virginia immediately after the West Virginia welcome sign
TO CARPOOL: Hikers wishing to carpool should meet at the Centreville Park and Ride off I-66, exit 52, Centreville. Arrive early enough so that drivers can depart the lot no later than 7:00 AM. Go west on Rt 29 taking the 2nd right into the park and ride lot, then immediately turn left to the corner of the lot where our group gathers. (See: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/riders/stone-road ). There are not always people interested in carpooling. If you are new to the group and do not see folks gathering there, continue to the trailhead. If you let me know early enough, I will advise other attendees that there are carpool candidates.
NOTE: Please let me know in advance if you will be coming and if you will meet at Keys Gap or at the carpool site in Centreville. Once all "declared" hikers have arrived, we will depart, regardless of the time, but no later than 0815. The weather does not look good for Tuesday, as of now, but as long as someone says they will be there then I will be too. I'll understand if there are a lot of Monday decisions on attendance...
See you then!
Leader: Ed Cook, veet...@gmail.com, 703-609-6794
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