Please notify hike leader or Executive Secretary of any change of your home address. This is in addition to the cost of bus fare. Golden Eagle or Golden Age passholders do not pay the additional fee, but should have the pass handy. Membership is not required unless specified. Hikers choose one of two circuits today.
Long hikers do a double transmontane.
Starting from Elizabeth Furnace, they cross over to Rte. 613 on the Sherman Gap Trail and recross on the Shawl Gap Trail. Moderate hikers also start from Elizabeth Furnace but climb the Tuscarora Trail to Shawl Gap, then head south on the Massanutten Mtn. East Trail, and return on the Sherman Gap and Botts Trails. Md. Long hikers start at the intersection of Gambrill Park and Hamburg Roads and follow Hamburg Road to the Catoctin Trail, on which they go north over rolling hills and past picturesque lakes to the Manor Area.