Pinchot State Forest Thornhurst Tract - Pennsylvania DCNR
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 41.21545, -75.64246
TRAIL MAP:
Pinchot Trail System - Pennsylvania DCNR
HIKE DISTANCE: 6 miles
THE HIKE:
I hiked the Pinchot Trail South in October 2018 and the Pinchot Trail North in May 2025. I was missing the part of the Pinchot Trail that connects the two so that was this hike. The original plan was 11 miles adding in some other trails but the hike was cut short due to swarms of invasive flies. More on that later.
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| Picking up a section of the orange-blazed Pinchot Trail that I had not yet hiked to the left of the kiosk. |
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| About three miles in these flies were landing on my neck and crawling up into my hair. I had never experienced anything like this before. All I was doing was pulling them out of my hair, one after the other after the other, almost nonstop. I did not think they were biting but they must have been because I woke up twice that night with intense itching all along the back of my head where they had been in my hair. When I returned home the back seat of the car was full of dead ones that had fallen off of Brodie. His flea and tick treatment must have killed them. On me neither picaradin nor DEET had any affect whatsoever. |
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| iNaturalist identification |
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| I really could not stand those flies any longer so where I met up with where I had hiked the Pinchot Trail before, instead of hiking some other trails I had planned on, I turned right on this snow mobile trail and bailed back to my car. |
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| Back at the car I was trying to find another hike to do on my phone while still pulling those flies out of my hair. It was a total nightmare! Finally found another hike so off to Glen Run Nature Preserve while STILL pulling those flies out of my hair while driving. |
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