For Connie and Tom
Join my journey
To honor my parents’ love for the outdoors, I’m taking the #FOWAllTrailsChallenge to explore all 50 miles of trails in Wissahickon Valley Park.
From August 5 to October 11, I’ll be hiking, sharing stories and raising money to support the Friends of the Wissahickon – and I invite you to join the journey.
Explore the park
This Google map from the Friends of the Wissahickon has all the hot spots, including parking lots.
All of my hikes!
Here are all of my routes combined into one interactive map. Not 100% accurate, but pretty close. And here’s an image of that map. (Turns out WordPress up-charges people like me to embed certain types of code.)
I created it with All Trails’ web version on a computer following these instructions. If you’re not tech-savvy, apply the KISS principle instead. Become a member of the Friends of Wissahickon, take the printed park map they gift you, and mark the trails you’ve hit with a highlighter.
Read my stories
To your heart’s content in Hermit’s Cave
“I wish we’d brought Kermit to the cave of the hermit,” I said to Luca as we passed the trail marker. “If your hook needs a lure, you can bob it or worm it.”…
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Town and Country on the Cresheim Trail
More to come dobedobedoooo I’ll write stuff here later. In honor of my parents, I’m challenging myself to hike all 50 miles of trails in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park, raising funds for the Friends…
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Motivation in Andorra Meadow
When the pandemic started and the world stopped, I began hiking again. Everywhere. I’d open the AllTrails app, pick a trail within an hour’s drive, and head out with my young son. Later a…
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Molly Messana 