50 Hikes in Central Pennsylvania: Day Hikes and Backpacking Trips

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This new edition of a classic hiking guide to Pennsylvania's heartland features 11 new hikes. Veteran trailblazer and outdoor activist Tom Thwaites, the author of two other 50 Hikes guides to Pennsylvania, has completely revised and updated this guide to the central portion of Penn's Woods. A wonderful area of wild country and wildlife, this region offers a vast network of maintained trail systems, yet is nevertheless lightly traveled. The author has added 11 new hikes to reflect changing trail conditions, and ...
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This new edition of a classic hiking guide to Pennsylvania's heartland features 11 new hikes. Veteran trailblazer and outdoor activist Tom Thwaites, the author of two other 50 Hikes guides to Pennsylvania, has completely revised and updated this guide to the central portion of Penn's Woods. A wonderful area of wild country and wildlife, this region offers a vast network of maintained trail systems, yet is nevertheless lightly traveled. The author has added 11 new hikes to reflect changing trail conditions, and has rehiked and checked each of the remaining hikes for this fourth edition. Each hike includes a topographical map, information on mileage, rise, and difficulty, and narrative on sights you'll see along the way. 11 new hikes in this edition, 40 black and white photographs, 51 maps, index.

Author Biography: While teaching physics at Penn State University, Tom Thwaites was advisor to the Penn State Outing Club for 29 years, and during that time became an expert on the many footpaths in the Keystone State. A resident of State College, he is a member of the Keystone Trails Association and the Mid-State Trails Association and has personally scouted, blazed, and cleared many of the trails in this guide.

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David Thompson
Thwaites is one of Pennsylvania's most experienced and knowledgeable hikers .... gives information that makes the paths come alive. —News Sun
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780881503531
  • Publisher: Countryman Press, The
  • Publication date: 8/28/1995
  • Series: 50 Hikes Series
  • Edition description: 3rd ed
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 200
  • Product dimensions: 6.03 (w) x 9.04 (h) x 0.52 (d)

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Tom Thwaites is a preeminent authority on hiking the trails of Pennsylvania. An ardent trail builder and maintainer, he is a past president of the Mid-State Trail Association and an active member of the Keystone Trails Association, the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Sierra Club, and the American Hiking Society. He is the author of
Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Western Pennsylvania, Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Central Pennsylvania, and Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Eastern Pennsylvania. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

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