Very pretty hiking this afternoon as the trail led through open forest, rhododendron and up and down various ridges. Spaghetti and garlic bread was decent and I hiked out of Durbin and across the Greenbrier River around 2:00 and headed up the mountain. Arrived in Durbin around 1:00 and had lunch at the Station 2 restaurant. 250, which passed uneventfully with the exception of a low altitude flyover by some fighter jets. The last two miles into Durbin were along Rt. 250 and I enjoyed this part of the hike very much. The high water route had some outstanding scenery along Fill Run leading up to Rt.
#HIGH FALLS OF THE CHEAT PLUS#
I opted for the high water route as I wasn't sure how high the river would be after the rain, plus it was a couple miles shorter, which I figured would be good given the knee problem. and I stopped and cooked some oatmeal for breakfast around 10:00 AM and was able to get some gear dried out a little.
Knee was actually feeling better today and while it hurt off and on, it actually got better as the trip progressed and by the next day I had hardly any pain, which was great! The sun came out as I started descending Shavers Mt. I pitched my tent next to the bathroom, took a couple of Ibuprofen and got a pretty good nights sleep.Ĭhilly 41* in the morning, but I packed up and was walking in a cold mist by 8:00 AM. Plus it had bear proof trash cans where I was able to hide my food for the night without having to hang it. No luck on the shelter but there was a bathroom where I was able to store my backpack, hang up wet clothes, and cook dinner. It was raining and getting dark when I saw the sign for the Picnic area, so I decided to hike the 1/2 mile up the road to see if there was maybe a covered shelter. I basically limped for the next 5 miles on my left leg and made it the Gaudineer Knob scenic area around 6:30PM. After resting for a half hour and filtering some water I decided that I wasn't ready to give up yet and decided to hike out and get in a couple more miles and see how it went. I thought I probably should stay here for the night and then limp out to Gaudineer the next day and hitchhike down to my car at Cass since in the past the pain just got worse the farther I went. In order to finish the hike I'd planned, I needed to get in around 15 mi./day and I'd only gone about 10 at this point. It was raining and I was feeling pretty low. I've had problems with the IT band in that knee over the last year and had been rehabbing over the summer to hopefully avoid a repeat on this hike, but to no avail. Arrived at Johns Camp shelter around 3:30 PM - which was about an hour after the start of pain in my right knee. The sun came out for a few minutes from time to time in the morning, beautifully illuminating the rain laden ferns and branches. down to the High Falls on the Cheat River. where the Allegheny trail splits off from the High Falls trail, which continues off the other side of Shavers Mt. The trail travels up to a saddle on Shavers Mt. The first part of the High Falls trail travels through an open meadow, which made for some wet pants.
Weather was overcast and it was wet from an inch of rain that fell on Tuesday night/Wednesday. Arrived at the trailhead just south of Glady and got started hiking around 9:00 AM. Got out for a nice three day trip on the ALT this past week.