Horse Shoe Trail Section 4 Route 100 to Downed Tree and Back

The title of this section would have been Route 100 to Warwick County Park if it weren't for the downed tree (and thensome). We attempted to go around to the left but it became obvious pretty quickly that we weren't getting past this obstable without significant climbing through and over thorny vines and branches. 

So we  turned around. Turning around gave us two crossings of the same creek and double the views of the pond at Welkinweir. 

Keep Smiling Keep Moving

-Paula 

Horse-Shoe Trail Section 3: Warwick County Park to SGL 43 at Harmonyville Road.

Last weekend we had hoped to once again attempt the section between Brightside Farm Park (BFP) and Route 100. However, weather, wind chills and a blood donation have kept us off the trail for too many weeks and 11.1 miles felt like too much. Instead, Elaine, Dave and I went to Bryn Coed Nature Preserve and, despite getting lost, had a wonderful time. We covered 5.5 miles that day. 

Returning home from that outing I decided to refigure the sections to build back up to 10 to 12 miles. The other thing I decided was that two attmpts at BFP to Route 100 was enough for now. We are already out of order so we'll go back to that later. That brings us to today's section, 5.9 miles from Warwich County Park and the SGL 43 parking area on Harmonyville Road. 

This section follows French Creek with several crossing of streams feeding into the Creek.

January snow and rain has the Creek
running at a decent height and pace.

Stream crossing were plentiful today.
Rock for hopping were jsut as plentiful.

No one got wet 👏

The perk of this section is the ease of visiting St. Peter's Bakery post hike. 💖

The question of the day is "Why is the village alled St. Peter's"? While I can find many refernces to the village and its history, none shares the origin of the name. If you know, please let us know. 

Keep Smiling Keep Moving - Paula