The Wyoming State Forest's World's End Loop Trail (Pennsylvania) with its rocky and at times steep trails will provide backpackers with an excellent setting for a 22-mile weekend backpacking adventure. Named for the famed Wyoming Valley, its rugged forested mountains and valleys will offer rich views of flora and fauna, with perhaps a glimpse of a bobcat, black bear, or coyote. Three vistas await, including the beautiful Stones Pond, dense hemlock forests, a few waterfalls, and the wonderful Haystacks of Loyalsock creek. The following pictures are from a backpacking trip I led on that trail about two years ago. Enjoy.
Starting our ascent of the first major climb.
It was a wet foggy morning.
Just a small stream
Mushrooms taking up residence.
Caterpillar on the trail.
My hammock with Tarp
My pack tied to tree trunk
A solitary rock in the stream
Hiking along the stream
[Photographic Art by Ric Couchman]