Laboring Under Our Own Delusions - Part 2
Did you read Part 1 ? Enjoying some hard earned Ale-8-One s outside Diamond Caverns When we hike the West Highland Way in about a month, we'll be doing three days of walking back to back to back, and our distances each day will be about 12 miles, 9 miles, and 15 miles, respectively. Although Chris has logged longer days down in the Grand Canyon, my longest hike to date topped out just under 11. To ensure I had experience with a longer stroll, on our second hiking day in Mammoth Cave National Park , we wanted to go long, and indeed, we did! For this meander, we picked the Mammoth Cave Railroad Bike & Hike Trail ; running 8-9 miles one way from the Visitor Center to nearby Park City, it's a crushed gravel path that covers the tracks of the railroad line that used to bring visitors to the Park (you saw one of the trains that used it in the last blog). It's not super technical, but it does have some ups and downs; in this, it seems to pretty closely mirror...
