Ok here is how it went down,
1. I went to steam4me.com and was linked to a website for plotting a bicycle path:
http://www.toporoute.com/cgi-bin/bicycle.cgi?
So I made the marker files of the NEC from philly to a little pass Washington D.C. I saved the file as a .gpx file. How here is my question is it possible to get the Dem data of the path i took to Washington rather than doing it on usgs one at a time which is time consuming?