‘Outdoors | Hiking’ Posts⁽¹⁰⁾

I appear to be missing some hikes. I’ve got records of hiking a couple of trails, but no photos (much less blog posts) to match. Not sure where I put them all, but that was a lot of work for me to loose them.

hopefully i can slowly re-hike my way through the list in the next forty or fifty years of my life, which won’t be a waste of time at all.

And that’s not to mention the pictures i have with this post of the Long Trail, but i have no record of ever hiking it.

Which bring up an important point — if a trail is hiked in a forest, but no one takes a picture, did it really happen?

Did a quick overnight hike off Skyline Drive.

Got a late start, was hiking until after duck, and spent a miserable night on the side of a mountain because I actually listened to the park ranger when they said that camping was prohibited next to trails and near water.

The very next morning I passed no less than half a dozen campsites within 4 feet of the trail and 2 feet of the water.

I topped off my four hours of fitful sleeping with a hike back, a collapse at the elkwallow wayside, the best grilled cheese i’ve ever had in my life, and a three hour nap in my car.

i’m getting too old for this sort of thing.

Shenandoah National Park:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unclevanya/sets/1151553/

Did a week on vacation. Hit West Virginia, this time Berkely Springs for three days, and Lost River State Park for 7. Very restful, very relaxing. Brought back a some pictures, too. It was allllll about good. Hiked the Staghorn & East Ridge trails, and the Razorback Ridge & Howard’s Lick trails.