Again a humid day for hiking. Beginning at the trailhead on Newfound Gap Road, you begin uphill immediately and it does let up until you have attained the gap and intersection with Sugarland Mountain Trail. I required a long break here, downing lots of gatorade. The next couple miles head down to Little River.
The trail ends at a T with Little River Trail which was a railroad bed at one time. The Little River Lumber company extracted timber from here until 1938, four years after the park was established. The land purchase agreement permitted the company to continue cutting virgin timber for a period of years after the land sale. And they did up until the very last day of the agreement. Above is an old railroad bridge crossing Little River as seen from my lunchstop.
This hike added 4.1 miles to my S900 challenge.
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