Hiking up to Catherine's Peak... and back down.

The common mistake most people make hiking is wearing thick sweaters, a track suit and slippers.  Funny enough though you can get away with that on Catherine's Peak.  The entire track is paved. Its quite a good  climb of aproximately 1060ft from New Castle.   The surface is more forgiving for city slickers in slippers and their paraphernalia.

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It's claimed that the peak is named after Catherine Maria Long.  Why a white woman would make the terrible hike back in the 1760 is beyond my reasoning.  Oh did i say terrible, i meant challenging. Every JDF soldier that does the run probably laughs when they read online about the 1.5 hour round trip that i should take a hiker.  It is said that the run for the soldiers takes them 25 minutes to the peak and 9 back down.

 

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Yeah for those who don't know a little spring below the peak feeds into the Catherine's Peak Bottling plant.
Hopefully the activity around Catherine's Peak dosen't affect the water quality, cause you know what they say "never drink from the streams below the coffee line".

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