Hammock Camping Allegheny National Forest
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- We're back with another backpacking adventure in Pennsylvania! This is my second trip to Minister Creek in the Allegheny National Forest, PA. This is one of the shortest backpacking loops you can possibly do, it's a total of only six miles. This is a great trip for beginners to get a feel for backpacking as well as test out their hiking and camping gear.
That is precisely what this trip was all about. One of my friends that I met via our Facebook group wanted to take his son out on his first trip. Some of you have probably tried to get family members or friends to get into the backpacking hobby with you, only for them to hate it. Typically, this is because of a few main factors. A lot of times that person isn't in shape, their gear is too heavy, the trail is too hard or they aren't comfortable living in the backcountry. A short mileage trip like this is an easy way to ease someone into the hobby.
Despite being a short trail, Minister Creek offers a decent experience. The creek that the trail is named after breaks up the forest with some nice scenery. There are a lot of established campsites near the creek which makes water management easy. Pretty much any site you come across is well established with plenty of flat ground and a fire ring. The only downside is that every campsite is picked clean of fallen wood due to the popularity of Minister Creek.
Being a short trip, my pack was super light weighing in at less than 14 pounds fully loaded with food and water. With the warmer weather being here, I've had a chance to use my new pack, the Zpacks Nero 38L quite a bit. I wasn't sure how well I'd like a frameless pack with no hip belt, but as long as you keep an ultralight loadout, the pack works great.
Speaking of gear, I finally purchased a CNOC Vecto 2L water bag to replace my Sawyer Squeeze bags. I love how easy it is to scoop up water compared to the Sawyer. With that being said, I've only used this bag twice and it developed a pinhole on this trip. The hole was so small that it would only leak water if you squeezed it. I still find this to be unacceptable for a brand new product. Apparently, this is a common issue these bags have, so hopefully CNOC can step up the QC.
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Check out first trip to Minister Creek where I got chased off by thunderstorms!
Solo Backpacking in a Thunderstorm at Minister Creek, Pennsylvania
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Seeing your friend and his son reminds me of when I took my son backpacking for the first time. He was 7 and we went to Zaleski. We got a hell of a thunderstorm, and he slept through the whole thing. That was 1999.
I avoided the thunderstorms this time lol, last trip there I got chased off.
Good beginner trail!
Don't know that it's worth the six hours round trip to drive, but yeah it's alright lol
Nice Trip!
It was, thanks for watching!
This was an awesome video just ran across it I can see why you went back to finish it out the cave was awesome. Glad to see your friend and his son on the trip looks like the young man enjoyed the trip and the cave. Glad you had good weather this time Very nice video enjoyed watching it. looking forward to the next one.
Yeah it’s a decent little trail
Good video BnB, was hoping to see guys make the creek crossing after your overnighter. When I was there the creek water was fairly high it didn't help that I didn't scope out a shallower spot
Haha, yeah I haven’t seen it that high before. Thanks for tuning in!
Great video. We go to Minister quite a bit since its close to home. Do you have a video with your loadout? I hammock camp also, but nowhere near that light. Would love to know what you take along. Happy trails.
Check my newer videos. I have a link to my LighterPack in every description box. I also put out a gear video a couple months ago.
What part of Ohio are you from I’m just starting to get into backpacking I’m in central Ohio
Greater Cleveland area. Tons of trip videos on the channel, check them out to get some trip ideas!