Hiking Merit Badge - New Requirements

[Hedgehog 334]

Only one problem with that Backpacker challenge - it's impossible to do 42.9 miles across 4 states on the AT.  The proposal starts in PA, goes through Maryland, West Virginia then Virginia.  Only one problem.  The AT in Maryland is 40.9 miles long.  In West Virginia, a section of the tral is along the border of West Virginia and Virginia but there is 4 miles of unshared trali in West Virginia.  If I've added them up together correctly, that's 44.9 miles through Maryland and West Virginia alone - which is 2 miles longer than called for in the "4-state challenge".

 

 

The number is a little off.  Going South to North, you start at Penn Mar Road in Pennsylvania which is at 1054.4 from Springer Mountain.  You go past Shenandoah River Biridge is at 1012.5 from Springer Mountain which would be 41.9 miles.  It is then around 2.4 miles to the Virgina border skirting off on the Loudoun Trail to hit the Virginia border.  That makes it 44.3 miles.