The Washington DC contingent is heading out Friday
nite and will meet at Kim Brennan's place.

Directions are at
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0504A&L=vanagon&P=R16593

If you are heading out Saturday, Kim plans a
rendevous:

Saturday folks should plan to join up with us at
"Cline's Hacking".
While there are several ways to get there, my
recommended instructions
follow:

 From Harrisonburg, Virginia take US 33 West to
Whitmore Shop Road.
Turn RIGHT onto Whitmore Shop Road. Whitmore Shop Road
will sort of
make a Tee junction. Whitmore Shop Road will continue
to the right, and
Hopkin's Gap Road will go to the left.
Turn LEFT onto Hopkin's Gap Road. After climbing up a
bit of a hill
(i.e. Hopkin's Gap), Look for Long Run Road on the
left.
Turn LEFT onto Long Run Road. This is a dirt/gravel
road with some
rather rough sections. It goes into the George
Washington National
Forest and will take you up (eventually) to Cline's
Hacking. Cline's
Hacking is the intersection of Long Run Road with
Second Mountain Trail
(on the left of a 4 way intersection).
Turn LEFT onto Second Mountain Trail (which may not be
so labeled, but
there will be signs for ATV trails and it should be
fairly obvious.
A short drive down (hundred yards or so) this will get
you to the
rendezvous point where Dictum Ridge Trail turns off of
Second Mountain
Trail.

Depending on weather conditions, Second Mountain trail
had some really
interesting mud holes, while Dictum Ridge had some
truely frightening
stair steps. Derek, Steve, Brady and I managed to get
down the stair
steps, last year,  after one of Herakles labors (I
think the others did
more work than I). We may or may not go down those
steps, but at least
we'll walk down and show them. :)

Later we'll go down US 33 and onto Switzer Lake Road
(I don't believe
this is labeled except on maps). and eventually up to
Meadow Knob for
camping on Saturday night.

See you there!

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