A seriously rainy weekend kept us out of the woods and onto the greenway toward a place with a roof over it for brunch. In fact, after having foregone the rainy Saturday with hopes for a better Sunday, we started out under umbrellas, making our way f...
Y'hate it when the highlight of the hike happens before you start walking, but that might have been the case here – no wait, we saw two real live healthy frogs! – when, at the point where 60 crests the mountain at the Blue Ridge Parkway, we nearly di...
With reservations (a place to sit, not any hesitation at all) to see the wonderful Jesse Winchester in Staunton on Saturday night, we had a good excuse to visit St. Mary's Wilderness, where we'd not been for about three years.
And we seemed to have fo...
It's always good to do this watery walk in the springtime, though this year the flow of things wasn't what it has been some springs, when there were temporary flows to rock-hop, huge noise at Apple Orchard Falls, and taking off your shoes for one cro...
We "celebrated" the arrival of Daylight Savings Time (except of course in the morning, when it is Daylight Destroying Time) with an evening climb up to the formation. Celebration included even more irresponsible food than usual--Cheetos and roast bee...
The two minor drawbacks of this enjoyable, mostly gentle loop are that its viewpoints are in the first two miles or so, and it ends with a long ascent.
That first drawback resulted in our earliest-into-walk lunch ever, as we were just about exactly on...
This enjoyable, easy loop is always a good one for a rushed weekend where you get to reinforce how lucky Roanoke is to have the Appalachian Trail as close as 20 minutes away, but also its own in-town trail system on its own in-town mountain just minu...
The Fool in the Woods, aka Blue Ridge Country editor in chief Kurt Rheinheimer, is back with more great woodland information and secrets, this time reporting on how Virginia's Devil's Marbleyard was formed.
See Kurt's Hikes Blog.