Here is what we have heard about. Basically the entire second half of PA - at least as far as the AT is conserned - sucks. Even locals after picking you up for a hitch hike into town, will appologize about how hard it is through here. Basically you have 2 types of rock - all day long. The boulder fields which you climb and then the smaller ones embedded in the trail. These are the ones that kill - baseball, softball, and volleyball in size, all jagged, and half burried. You can't take a full stride, and you constantly pivot off of the tops of them. It is nothing to roll your ankles a couple times a day - it smarts really bad for a few mins, then you move on. I can't imagine doing this on fresh trail legs - you have to have over 1,000 miles built up on your tendons to do this. We met a section hiker that started in PA, lasted 2 days then quit. It really is as bad as they say. The further north we go - the duration gets longer - stretches of 10-14 miles of the small ones. REALLY gets annoying as the topo is flat - so you want to go fast - but you can't.
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