All road hike again on first weekend after COVID lock-down lifted as well as being first day of Memorial Day weekend…lets see who’s out and about. Answer is A LOT more road traffic than we are used to, but the roads were in large part NOT back roads either, so hard to judge fairly. This is not a very pleasant stretch of the BT, as it also runs for a long ways parallel to I-76 with its constant drone of highway traffic. We also ‘cheated’ because we started somewhere between sections 12-13 today because in previous weeks we drove from 11-12 and figured we could skip it and not miss much. If I had to pick highlights for today it was at the beginning and end. First, on the way to our starting point we came across a couple who were hiking the same BT sections as we were but they got a much earlier start in the day- very smart because it turned into a hot one. ALWAYS nice to chat with fellow Blue Blazers! Second, at the end of our journey we passed a wisteria vine that was taking over a rather large tree and was in full bloom- just gorgeous!
