Uploaded April 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this video hiking journal, my friend and I hike a section of the North Country National Scenic Trail in the Alleghany National Forest near Warren, Pennsylvania. We started at Henry Mills and ended at Dunham Siding. The total trail mileage was between 15 and 16 miles, but with some of our various wanderings, our trip totaled 23 miles over the course of 2.5 days. We are not experienced backpackers, so this was a new thing for the both of us; but we loved every minute of it. This trail section meanders through and around various abandoned oil drilling outfits, streams, huge rock structures, caves, creeks, valleys, and all kinds of various tree and animal species. Although we didn't come in direct contact with them, we did see signs of bear activity and heard some in the night as we slept in a lean-to along the trail. This is amazingly beautiful country and I very much look forward to coming back and exploring more of it in the future. One of the local guys we ran into even said that it wasn't necessary to purify the water and that he's been drinking strait out of the stream for the past 30 years, although, we treated our water just to be on the safe side. If you would like to see the maps we used in planning this trip, as well as a higher resolution topo map of the section we hiked, head on over to davidspasage.com
In this video hiking journal, my friend and I hike a section of the North Country National Scenic Trail in the Alleghany National Forest near Warren, Pennsylvania. We started at Henry Mills and ended at Dunham Siding. The total trail mileage was between 15 and 16 miles, but with some of our various wanderings, our trip totaled 23 miles over the course of 2.5 days. We are not experienced backpackers, so this was a new thing for the both of us; but we loved every minute of it. This trail section meanders through and around various abandoned oil drilling outfits, streams, huge rock structures, caves, creeks, valleys, and all kinds of various tree and animal species. Although we didn't come in direct contact with them, we did see signs of bear activity and heard some in the night as we slept in a lean-to along the trail. This is amazingly beautiful country and I very much look forward to coming back and exploring more of it in the future. One of the local guys we ran into even said that it wasn't necessary to purify the water and that he's been drinking strait out of the stream for the past 30 years, although, we treated our water just to be on the safe side. If you would like to see the maps we used in planning this trip, as well as a higher resolution topo map of the section we hiked, head on over to davidspasage.com
