As the name of this post indicated, this past weekend I was supposed to hiked 11 miles through the Ohiopyle State Park.

I guess technically you could say it was only 7 miles (4 miles were out of the park) but things went a tad bit astray…

The trail head that we started was the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail (really popular in the southwestern region of Pennsylvania).  Our starting point was the Ohiopyle Bakery and Sandwich Shoppe (yum!); ending point was (suppose to be) Maple Summit Road.  If you look closely enough you’ll be able to see the trail on this map from the PA DNCR.

All together there were 8 of us that started the trek and really only 2 finished the main plan.  I was in the group of six that ended up taking a detour(?).  But I’ll get to that later…