Comments on: Rock city http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4932 Dave Mon, 25 May 2009 11:30:36 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4932 Hi Digger - Thanks for the comment. If I get back up that way I'll definitely drop you a line. There's no substitute for the kind of knowledge one gets from long-term association with a place. Please do let me know if you post photos online at Flickr (I hear Picasa is a good photo-sharing site, too). Hi Digger – Thanks for the comment. If I get back up that way I’ll definitely drop you a line. There’s no substitute for the kind of knowledge one gets from long-term association with a place. Please do let me know if you post photos online at Flickr (I hear Picasa is a good photo-sharing site, too).

]]> By: Digger http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4931 Digger Mon, 25 May 2009 02:25:24 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4931 I read both of your posts about Fred Woods Trail. Great pictures. From someone who has been all over that mountain, literaly, you have barely scratched the surface of what the mountains has to show you. Sometime in the future, I will have to set up a flickr account and post some of my over 1000 pictures I have of that mountain alone. I have been down the majority of the runs that flow off of it. I have been down Sandy Run, Beaver Dam Run, Stone Quarry Run, Water Plug Run and Little Dents Run. Especially Beaver Dam Run has alot to offer. But if you decided to go down it, be prepared, there is no trail, and it is extremely rugged for a good portion of the decent. Also you may want to have someone meet ya at the bottom on 555. The Reason i know that mountain so well is my uncle has a camp up there and I am usually there 2-3 times a year for 3 days to a week a visit. If you have any questions about the area, let me know, I will be glad to try and answer them for ya. I read both of your posts about Fred Woods Trail. Great pictures. From someone who has been all over that mountain, literaly, you have barely scratched the surface of what the mountains has to show you. Sometime in the future, I will have to set up a flickr account and post some of my over 1000 pictures I have of that mountain alone. I have been down the majority of the runs that flow off of it. I have been down Sandy Run, Beaver Dam Run, Stone Quarry Run, Water Plug Run and Little Dents Run. Especially Beaver Dam Run has alot to offer. But if you decided to go down it, be prepared, there is no trail, and it is extremely rugged for a good portion of the decent. Also you may want to have someone meet ya at the bottom on 555.

The Reason i know that mountain so well is my uncle has a camp up there and I am usually there 2-3 times a year for 3 days to a week a visit. If you have any questions about the area, let me know, I will be glad to try and answer them for ya.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4930 Dave Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:17:35 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4930 Hey, thanks! I'm glad that someone so familiar with the trail felt that I got it right. Hey, thanks! I’m glad that someone so familiar with the trail felt that I got it right.

]]> By: Bill Tahaney http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4929 Bill Tahaney Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:56:17 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4929 You describe this trail perfectly. I have walked it over ten times, but the beauty of such a magical place still thrills me. I'm glad someone wrote about this trail, and did it justice. Thanks. You describe this trail perfectly. I have walked it over ten times, but the beauty of such a magical place still thrills me. I’m glad someone wrote about this trail, and did it justice. Thanks.

]]> By: Burning Silo » Blog Archive » read or seen and enjoyed http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4928 Burning Silo » Blog Archive » read or seen and enjoyed Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:27:02 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4928 [...] * Dave at Via Negativa recently wrote a two-part photo essay on a hike along the Fred Woods Trail in Pennsylvania's Elk State Forest. Here are parts one, and two. [...] [...] * Dave at Via Negativa recently wrote a two-part photo essay on a hike along the Fred Woods Trail in Pennsylvania’s Elk State Forest. Here are parts one, and two. [...]

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4927 Dave Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:18:54 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4927 <i>a bunch of ancient graffiti in pyramids and other old rock stuff in Egypt</i> Cool! You know that's what I'd have been photographing. a bunch of ancient graffiti in pyramids and other old rock stuff in Egypt
Cool! You know that’s what I’d have been photographing.

]]> By: Beer Activist http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4926 Beer Activist Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:54:57 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4926 Seung and I came across a bunch of ancient graffiti in pyramids and other old rock stuff in Egypt, incribed like what you saw here. Paul Theroux mentions this too in his book Dark Star Safari, Overland from Cairo to Capetown, which Seung is reading right now. Seung and I came across a bunch of ancient graffiti in pyramids and other old rock stuff in Egypt, incribed like what you saw here. Paul Theroux mentions this too in his book Dark Star Safari, Overland from Cairo to Capetown, which Seung is reading right now.

]]> By: marly http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4925 marly Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:40:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4925 Thanks, q.r.! I'll keep my eyes wide open for those leaves... Thanks, q.r.!

I’ll keep my eyes wide open for those leaves…

]]> By: quiet regular http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4924 quiet regular Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:44:07 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4924 marly, Canada mayflower is about 6" high and will thrive in deep shade. Find a spot where it grows profusely and visit that spot in the fall when the berries are present and mature. Help yourself to a few and plant them where you want them. This taken from Handbook of Wild Flower Cultivation by Kathryn S. Taylor marly,
Canada mayflower is about 6″ high and will thrive in deep shade. Find a spot where it grows profusely and visit that spot in the fall when the berries are present and mature. Help yourself to a few and plant them where you want them. This taken from
Handbook of Wild Flower Cultivation by Kathryn S. Taylor

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/rock-city/#comment-4923 Dave Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:04 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/06/05/rock-city/#comment-4923 Hi Gina - Glad you liked. No, it wasn't that one - I recognize the spot. This shelter was a ways off the trail, and high enough that one could stand upright in it. I've never gotten a tick myself, though it's probably only a matter of time. It could be that some people are simply more attractive than others. L. even had her pant legs tucked into her socks. Hi Gina – Glad you liked. No, it wasn’t that one – I recognize the spot. This shelter was a ways off the trail, and high enough that one could stand upright in it.

I’ve never gotten a tick myself, though it’s probably only a matter of time. It could be that some people are simply more attractive than others. L. even had her pant legs tucked into her socks.

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