Rothrock in October
I went with some fellow members of Penn State Christian Grads on a Sunday afternoon hike in nearby Rothrock State Forest, at probably the peak of a subdued spread-out fall colour season
October 23, 2005

01-Slope Starting the hike in Rothrock 02-GoldenWoods Golden woods 03-Rocks Rocks like these were everywhere in Rothrock State Forest 04-YellowLeaves Yellow leaves 05-Uphill Looking uphill 06-Road Part of a road near the Mid-State Trail 07-Road Road 08-Orange Orange highlights 09-Forest Rothrock State Forest 10-Path Our path through Rothrock 11-PAHills The autumn hills of central Pennsylvania 12-PAHills PA hills 13-Sunburst Sunburst 14-Colours Notice how the tree on the left is totally bent over from a wind storm in a recent winter 15-MidStateTrail Mid-State Trail in Rothrock State Forest ... I loved this part of the trail in particular, it was so cool 16-Autumn Autumn 17-Hikers A couple of the hikers from our group 18-GoldenWoods Golden woods 19-Rothrock Rothrock 20-MidStateTrail Mid-State Trail 21-WideTrail A wider portion of the trail 22-TusseyRidge Tussey Ridge 23-TusseyRidgeA Tussey Ridge, the first of a series of pics I stitched together into a panoramic 24-TusseyRidgeB Tussey Ridge ... State College and Boalsburg are somewhere on the other side of this ridge 25-TusseyRidgeC Tussey Ridge 23-Vista Beautiful vista 24-RedBushes Some red bushes 25-Woods Back into the woods 26-Ridge Ridge 27-Ridge I'm not sure if this is Tussey Ridge or not, but it probably is 28-Lookout Another lookout 29-RothrockSF Rothrock State Forest 30-InsectBore A cool insect bore on a small tree 31-Sun Sun 32-Sign Trail intersection 33-Tendrils Little tendrils on the branches 34-BrownFerns Brown ferns were everywhere along this portion of our hike, in a little glen 35-ForestFloor The colours of the forest floor in autumn 36-Glen A glen 37-Glen Ferny glen along Sand Spring Trail 38-Autumn Autumn 39-Brilliance The colours of autumn 40-EarthTones Earth tones 41-Sign Another sign 42-DownedTree Downed tree 43-Shrooms Shrooms 44-Rothrock Rothrock 45-Rothrock Rothrock 47-Path Path through the forest, almost looped back to our starting point