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5-6 Days in Dolly Sods with Scouts


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    Brad P
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    @brawndo

    My troop is considering a roll your own trip to Dolly Sods in Summer 2023. Most of the routes I see are less than 30 miles and I’d like to make it a 5-6 day trip. Have any of you gone there for more than 3 days? Do you have the route you did?

    I’m also considering other backpacking trips within a day’s drive of Northern, VA for the same number of days. The Smokies would be great but they have group limits that would make it not work.

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    Mark Messonnier
    BPL Member

    @qzm3

    Brad – the site just lost my reply (twice) so I’ll send you a PM with a Dolly Sods route I did last October, hiking five days.

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    Kevin Babione
    BPL Member

    @kbabione

    Locale: Pennsylvania

    I’ve been to the Sods on three trips and felt that I really covered it pretty completely in two days on each trip.  If you end up going in July you’ll have to remember sunscreen – most of the northern part of the Sods is in full sun.

    You don’t say how big your group is, but another thought, on a trail less traveled, would be to do a chunk of the Mid State Trail in PA.  It would be a point-to-point hike so you’d need to work out the logistics, but the MST passes through a number of state parks with camping so you could mix up staying on trail with staying in a group site at a state park.

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    Brad P
    Spectator

    @brawndo

    Kevin, this is for 2023, so I can’t be certain of group size, but I suspect it would be 12, including adults. Thank you for that suggestion. Splitting it into 2 hikes is a possibility.

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