Penny Allenwood Outdoors, LLC

Dear Outdoor Clothing Manufacturers: Believe it or not, women go outside. We hike. We camp. We fish. We hunt. We ski. We do all kinds of things in the outdoors. The one thing we are unable to do, however, is find a pair of cargo pants for women that actually have POCKETS. You know - those AMAZING things they put on MEN'S PANTS that actually CARRY STUFF!?! Just because I carry purse to the mall doesn't mean I carry one in the woods. I would like to have a pair of hik

In April, 2017, I was working not only on my Hike100 Challenge for 2017, but also on my own personal goal of hiking all of the North Country Trail in Pennsylvania. April 1 was a good day weather-wise for hiking - but turned out not to be very good for my NCT-PA goal! I started out with the intention of completing the last section in western PA that I hadn't yet hiked - from Darlington, PA to the Ohio line. However, it was not to be - we had had very heavy spring rains, and

Lily Pond Circle Trail parking lot, McCollum Road, Mill Creek Metroparks, Youngstown, OH The Lily Pond Circle Trail in Mill Creek Metroparks, Youngstown, OH, is a Class 1/Easy, 0.25 mile flat, handicapped accessible trail that circles Lily Pond. The trail boasts two scenic wooden overlooks that jut into the pond, and a third overlook off the parking lot that juts into Frog Pond. The parking lot can be accessed from McCollum Road in the Mill Creek Metroparks, and includes a

Hell's Hollow Trail (to the right); North Country Trail (to the left) The Hell's Hollow Trail in McConnell's Mill State Park can be accessed from the Hell's Hollow Parking Lot on Shaffer Road in Portersville, PA (for directions, click here). This 0.5 mile, out and back trail (1 mile round trip), is a Class 1/Easy trail, and is wide, flat and groomed until you get within about 100 feet of the Falls access trail. This trail will take you to an old lime kiln, and a wooden stai