Trip Report: Trout Run Valley Crossword Puzzle!

I have done this trail so many times so why not do something a little different! Some housekeeping things though:

Congratulations to Donna, Paul, and Daniel for completing your first trip with the club and subsequent promotion to member status. Hope to see you all on future DCUL trips!

Thank you to fellow AO’s Snake jumper and Maddie (Shutterfly? thoughts???? Maddie lags behind because she’s just taking photos of mushrooms, flowers, bugs, birds, etc for her INaturalist. She’s also our de facto Ecologists on trips! Let me know if you accept) for joining and assisting me on the trip. The help was much appreciated and more valuable than you think.

Tessa, Helen, Abhi thanks for joining us again on another trip. Hope to see you all again!

Thank you to PATC for clearing the trail! Appreciate everything you all do!

The trail is the same as it ever was but different. The same but different. If that makes sense? Same trail, same people, different season, different conditions. It’s like visiting an old friend who you haven’t seen in a long time. Still the same but a little different. I really have nothing else to say. If someone stumbles upon this trip report and wants more information I would refer you to the main catalog of Trip Reports and search for the other reports on this trail… like mine exactly a year ago!

Caltopo link: https://caltopo.com/m/139P

Now, if you will, please enjoy this crossword puzzle I made that consists of information from this most current trip. To be honest, anyone should be able to solve this, I’m pretty sure I made every hint pretty easy to decipher.

ACROSS
2. Donna thought she was being stalked by this animal
5. A poison ivy ID theory
8. The female witch protagonist in the famous 1989 Hayao Miyazaki film
9. NOVA hiking club’s summer trip
10. Mountain range in California
12. Andrew Skurka’s famous dinner
15. A popular tent sold at REI
16. Purveyor of Yosemite scented candles
17. Club responsible for maintenance of majority of the Mid-Atlantic trail systems
19. The preferred nickname of the “Trust buster” president
21. Largest Indian Supermarket in the United States
24. Gene Wilder/Johnny Depp/Timothee Chamalet

DOWN
1. An activity aimed to achieve an emotionally calm and stable state
3. The sport of navigation
4. Biblical character who survived the lions den
6. Okie from Muskogee but make it in Southern Virginia
7. A flowery Virginia based cottage company that makes mid-style tents
11. The Greek Goddess of wild animals/hunting
13. Rich men North of ________
14. Small Floss
18. Controversial computer technology
20. Mocking ham
22. _____ of Troy
23. An Eastern European Country with U.S origins

See you later,

Willy Wonka