Month: April 2024

The value of trail names. I ran into these two at the trailhead in Pearisburg. They didn’t recognize me, nor I them, but when we

I’ll start off this post with this guy. He’s some type of moth, I guess. I’ll need to look him up for more specifics. Look

We made it back from Wanda Sykes. Great show, and a very quick trip to DC. We were only in the city for about 4

Today is a slack-pack day, as Waterboy, Warrior Princess, CornDog and Orange Crush prepare to leave trail for a zero and a nero. We’ll soon

Elk Garden trailhead crosses the paved road, and the AT starts its 5 mile accent to the highest point on the AT in Virginia, Mount

We had extra photos of Damascus, Virginia. No hiking photos today. Damascus sports many lovely murals. Every pass through I seem to find a new

These next two days are made up largely of ridge hiking, mostly above 3000 feet. The weather has been a little wet, nice and cool,

Today was dedicated to hiking around parts of Watauga Lake, exploring the dam (mile 432) and moving on through Cherokee NP. As we move deeper

This section marked another milestone, mile 400 was crossed. Another cemetery on the trail. Again testing out some camera filters. Spent a partial rainy day

As the days become essentially repetitive hiking days (not much happening), it seems best to combine them into single posts. This next batch of photos