Hiking Sugarloaf Mountain

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Hiking Sugarloaf Mountain

(October 23rd, 2011) Author: TheSizzle in Category: Outdoors

I’ve been looking for some decent hiking since I moved to eastern Maryland, and after some extensive internet searching, I stumbled on Sugarloaf Mountain. Their website has a nice trailmap, which was attractive for someone who would be exploring the area for the first time on their own. Upon arrival, I followed the one-way entrance up the mountain to the northernmost parking lot. At 11 AM, it was already fairly busy, so I would definitely recommend starting earlier if possible. I’ve included my GPS track and a few photos I took with my phone at the White Rocks lookout point.

I primarily followed the Blue trail (B1 – B4 checkpoints on the map) which is accessible by a steep path out of the northeast end of the parking lot, before splitting off onto the Purple trail (P1 – P3). The blue trail was moderately busy, while the purple trail was very lightly traveled. I followed the purple trail all the way to the White Rocks lookout point, before following the Blue trail (B7 – B10) back to where I parked.

Overall, the weather was perfect for hiking (~60F), and the autumn colors were just starting to make an appearance. I should mention that I forgot to start my GPS track when I left the car, but the end of the track is where I parked. The total length of the GPS track is 7.3 miles, so I would guess the total length of the hike, including the part where I forgot to start the track is probably around 7.5 miles with roughly 2100 feet in elevation gain.

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Matt October 26th, 2011 9:13 pm

Awesome! That looks like a pretty sweet hike.

What kind of GPS do you have?
TheSizzle October 26th, 2011 9:37 pm

Yea, it wasn’t too bad for my first shot in Maryland!

I used my HTC Incredible with the Google My Tracks app. It works pretty well, and it exports a standard GPX file which I can use with a wordpress plugin to make the charts in the post. The only problem is that my phone’s battery life is pretty awful, so recording a track for more than a few hours is out of the question…

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