One by Paul G Wiegman about the geology of the trail.
Just a few hundred yards farther northeast of the tilted rock is a concrete underpass below McKenzie Hollow Road and another important geologic or geographic feature of the Great Allegheny Passage. This is the Eastern Continental Divide.
Water falling on land to the east drains into small streams that join Wills Creek. That creek joins the Potomac River at Cumberland, then flows into the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.
To the west, water goes into Flaugherty Creek, the Casselman, Youghiogheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi rivers and, finally, into the Gulf of Mexico. A more precise was of looking at this watershed divide is as a sub-continental divide, because all the water ends up in the Atlantic Ocean. The continental divide along the Rocky Mountains is a true continental divide, because it splits water going into two different oceans.
The other article is more like a journal. It was written by Karen Price. It seems that the trail is good for business.
That night we decided to treat ourselves to the indoor plumbing and beds of the Red Roof Inn in Williamsport and pulled into the parking lot to discover only three cars.
The hotel was far from vacant, however.
It's a popular spot for bikers from the trail, and it seemed as if every room I passed on the way to my own either had a bike locked outside or visible through the window. We met most of our fellow cyclists at breakfast at the Waffle House the next morning.
Both are well worth a read.
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