Hike #36 - Fort Washington State Park; or, "Duck, Duck, Goose!"

Hiking Fort Washington State ParkDate: February 1, 2012

Average temperatures in Pennsylvania for the month of February usually sit in the low to mid-40s. However, this winter has been anything but average. On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, temperatures hit a high of 65-degrees, and Hiking with Impunity found itself pushing the snowshoes they had purchased ever further back into the closet, and instead reached for their short-sleeve shirts!

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Explore PA Trails Website Review, by Joe Mezick

ExplorePAtrails.com is a remarkable web application that I recently discovered to help with finding hiking trails in Pennsylvania. I decided to search for the trails accessible by way of a short distance from the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The application performed well on our iMac but was slow when displaying the same trails on our iPad and Aspire NetBook.

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Interviewing with Impunity - The Curt Ashenfelter Q&A, Part 2

Curt Ashenfelter, the Executive Director of the Keystone Trails Association (KTA), recently participated in a Q&A with Hiking with Impunity. In the first part of our interview, Curt explained the importance of the KTA to Pennsylvania's trails and some of the opportunities available to hikers to help with trail maintenance.

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Hike #29 - French Creek State Park (Mill Creek Trail); or, "It's Tough Being Clever When You're Swarmed by Bugs!"

Hiking French Creek State Park On October 10, 2011, Hiking with Impunity returned to French Creek State Park for a fourth time. With its 7,730 acres of land, and over 35 miles of hikeable trails, it's easy to see why people (including us) return to this state park again and again, always finding a different route to take.

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Hike #29 - French Creek State Park (Mill Creek Trail); or, "It's Tough Being Clever When You're Swarmed by Bugs!"

Hiking French Creek State ParkHiking with Impunity returned to French Creek State Park in Elverson, Pennsylvania for a fourth time today. Whereas we had covered the Western portion of French Creek in our previously published hike from August 24th (see Hike #24), and had written about our brush with heat exhaustion while hiking the Boone Trail (see Hike #8 - "How to Get Heat Exhaustion without Really Trying"), today we hiked a loop that we pieced together using the Mill Creek and other trails in the eastern part of the state park.

We'll be bringing you full details from this hike soon. In the meantime, if you are one of the lucky people who found our calling card on the trail, click here (unless you see a comment box below), scroll to the bottom of the article, and post a comment -  let us know what day you found it, and what trails you took!