Glade Creek Hike
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| Glade Creek at rail crossing at abandoned town |
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| It is nice to walk a flat trail now and again |
Glade Creek Trail is an easy fairly flat trail that follows the creek most of the time and is utterly beautiful. The trail starts out with a rough gravel trail surface and after about .5 miles becomes a soft dirt trail with minimal rocks and roots. It is a pleasure to walk this trail after the last few weeks of rocky mountainous trails I have been hiking. Unfortunately we only traveled about half of the trail before having to turn around due to time constraints and ensuing darkness. However, not to miss an opportunity to have some fun, a brief discussion and decision was made to head over to the non thriving metropolis of Prince, pop 116, to watch the bats that live in the train station leave to find their evening meals. You do have to give the bat population props for trying to rid us of West Nile Disease by devouring all the mosquitoes! Can you say "All you can eat Baby"!
Yes, I said the train station. I know, who would expect a full service train station in an area as remote as this, but it is here and it actually is large compared to the one down the rail at Thurmond, WV, pop 7. Check out this link for information on this cool little depot... http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/PRC/Station_view. For a bit of information on the history of Prince as well as why this town never grew up, check out this article, http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Prince,_West_Virginia.
So until the next time we pass, keep the compass rose pointed north on the Appalachian Trail.....and as for the bats? There were no bats as there have recently been some repairs to the station sealing off old cracks and crevices where the bats lived.....oh well..we will find them next time.
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| Prince Train Station |
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| On the Rail |
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