- Bear Meadows/Switchbacks
- Pine Barrens
- Colyer Lake
- Harry's Valley Road
- Deer Pens/Observatory/Game Lands
Here's an article discussing how running in a forest is twice as good as running in a gym. We may have to arrange for the Alumni "Run" to be downhill at one of the Mountain Runs with handy Van transportation to and from. (Maybe it isn't such a good idea for those of us who have experienced being lost on one of these runs!)
I constantly complained about the Sunday Morning Death Marches and always considered them the lowlight of my PSU years!!! Ugh, those effing switchbacks. And which one started at the bottom of a huge hill on a highway??? Sheer torture. LTM
ReplyDeleteHee hee hee! That would be Harry's Valley Road, which was the road we turned onto after trudging uphill on Rt. 26 West of State College. Our "favorite person" once challenged me on the name of the road, but I supplied confirmation that it is indeed Harry's Valley Road (look it up everybody, or maybe I'll just put it in another post!) Then there was a 4 mile slight downhill among the forest culminating in a sharp left turn to circle back. If you knew the secret cut-off you had a 1/4 mile jog across a trail of the softest moss you ever imagined. Pure heaven, at least for this alum.
ReplyDeleteAnd note that I did complain "rarely". I'm sorta kinda human, after all! hee hee hee
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