Road Trips and Hike Reports

This same trailhead has been the starting and ending point for at least 6 other documented hike on this blog.  This time we followed the 'Swedish Loop' instead of the 'Spanish Loop' we have done more frequently.  It was odd looking at Alltrails.  The Swedish trail loop and the Spanish loop trail look overwhelmingly the same on the overview pages.  Yet, as our hike went on (and on) we realized that this was a substantially different and somewhat longer and harder hike than any of our previous visits to this trail network.  The Swedish trail, in reality, only makes up a certain amount of the total hike.  The first mile or so on the way into the trail network is the main Finger Lakes Trail and then the Swedish trail branched off and gained more elevation than the other trail we normally take.  I believe we did at least part of the Swedish trail (with blue blazes) before but when we popped out onto a gravel road after a long gradual climb and then had to w...