Been doing some sections of the A.T. the past month or so, which explains my absence on BPL. On a plane trip from the east coast to home, I read the BPL book review about Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, and then downloaded the Kindle version. It is a short book and I finished it before my plane landed in Palm Springs.
Toward the end of the book, the author went into detail about Emma’s work on the Buckeye Trail in Ohio. She was a founding member of Ohio’s Buckeye Trail Organization. One of Emma’s favorite hiking places was a section of the Buckeye trail in Hocking Hills, Ohio near a place named Old Man’s Cave.
So not much more than a week after I read about Emma Gatewood, I decided to head to Ohio and do some Buckeye Trail backpacking. This, like many of my trips, was a last minute spur of the moment decision.
