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the highlands west of spruce mountain
there's an official training ground on the west side of the cheat canyon
but there's lots of weird unused high elevation land sort of in between elkins wv and spruce knob itself (wv state highpoint)
that's both remote, little accessed, and convenient to washington dc and all the military/government stuff there
I hiked a trail where there's 3 creek crossings and they can be pretty scary if the water is high
there used to be a bridge (log) but the 1985 flood took it away and they never rebuilt it, i hike the trail like 15 years ago and mysteriously there were like jerry-rigged bridges across the crossings as if it were an obstacle course like each crossing had a different style bridge one was rope one was metal cables, and then I went back and did the trail some years later, all gone, no trace of that