ending of trip #3

so the last day of the trip was spent walking the remaining 9 miles to Pennsylvania line. the 500 ft incline at the start of the day was a little brutal since a lot of it was straight up. the views were gorgeous and this trip does have pictures to go along with it. towards the end of our trip there was a huge rock scramble going down hill that got so dense with rocks that the markers for the trail were often painted on bigger boulders. this where my uncle decided to call me mountain goat since I like to hop from rock to rock and go a little faster down hill. but I like to use my momentum to gain some time that we occasionally lose on the up hills and breaks.
one of the really cool parts of this trip was that as you walk along the ridge top you can look down into the valley. the cool part is that up on the ridge you're in Maryland but the valley is all Pennsylvania. at the Maryland-Pennsylvania border there was a little park that we had to walk through to get to the car. we remembered from the beginning of the trip that there was vending machines with soda in them. this became our motivating factor it getting us to keep going that day. it surprising how much a simple everyday soda can be so day changing.
this was our last trip of the spring and we wouldn't be going out again until September. we wanted to take off for the summer because it would be hot and we also had family obligations throughout the summer that would make it hard to take enough days off from work to get decent hiking in. I hope you liked the journal entries I put in. I think i'm going to use them mostly since it makes it easier to be sure i'm getting everything in the post. the next trip will actually be with my 2 cousins accompanying my uncle and I. that trip was really interesting.