South Mountain (MD)

On July 6, Louis and I hooked up for an easy dayhike to Lamb’s Knoll, as he continued his conditioning regimen leading to a big trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine in late July. We started at Gathland State Park west of Frederick and hiked north on the A.T. Three miles in, we found the only real view of the trip with a nice spot on a rock ledge for lunch. We wandered up to the highpoint of the knoll, only to find a big transmitter and access road. No lambs there. But it was a peak of sorts and we sort of bagged it and returned to the car. The state park was historically interesting, a civil war site with memorial to war correspondents, completed in 1896.