2012

Left: The view along this old-and-new Appalachian Trail hike. Right: Gail and Cookie.

What Makes The Greatest Day Hiker Just That

Andy Layne Trail to Appalachian Trail at Scorched Earth Gap; AT to just north of Lamberts Meadow Shelter; blue-blazed connector trail to AT along Tinker Mountain; AT across Tinker Cliffs back to Andy Layne and down. 10.7 miles.
Carvins Cove Reservoir, in Roanoke County, Va.

Fall on the Great Trail

Appalachian Trail, U.S. 220 to Carvins Cove viewpoint and back. 6 miles
The view from McAfee Knob

The Coldest Shelter in Virginia

Appalachian Trail from Va. 311 beyond McAfee Knob to Campbell Shelter and back. 8.8 miles.
The Greatest Day Hiker of Them All, with puppy, seen through a somewhat smeared camera lens.

Save for a Snowy Day

Chestnut Ridge Loop Trail near Roanoke Mountain. 5.4 miles.
Kurt on an earlier Sprouts Run/Wilson Mountain hike, last winter.

A Secret Hike: Sprouts Run/Wilson Mountain

Sprouts Run/Wilson Mountain Trails loop. 8 miles.

Departments

Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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