September 2012

I'm not sure we'd ever walked this gentle old favorite clockwise, and so on this day we set off to the right and down toward the little stretch on Va. 672 before the loop stays mostly woodsy the rest of the way.

With snow on the ground, the Blue Ridge Parkway closed and worries about the cold, we bundled up good and set out from the house on this blustery day, headed out of our neighborhood, onto the largely empty Roanoke River Greenway and downtown.

We were in search of several things on this clear, cold day with temperatures dropping into the mid-30s as we drove the parkway to Sunset Fields.

On a perfect day for walking the woods, many people were walking in the woods on the flanks of 4,001-foot Flat Top Mountain just off the Blue Ridge Parkway.

With no football game in Blacksburg, it appeared that a significant portion of the student body headed down Blacksburg Road to 311 and up to the McAfee lot. And so did Kurt and Gail.