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Weekday-Visitor Geezer Troublemaker Sighted at Virginia State Park

"Access to False Cape State Park is only by foot, bicycle or boat," says the ranger at the entrance of the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, echoing the words of the state park brochure.

Medium Walk, Large View, Small Time

Part of the beauty of this hike is that, if you live in Roanoke and have a rushed weekend to squeeze a hike into, you can be to its trailhead in 20 minutes.

Tinker Cliffs Times 20: Still New

You do a hike for the 20th time over a seven-plus-year period and you ought to know its every twist and turn. Which we pretty much do for this favorite, though of course there are always a few small surprises:

New Trails in the Roanoke Valley

The recently cut trails in the preserve illustrate with just about every step of the walk the mammoth work of trail building.

Kurt’s Hikes: Good Afternoon, Irene

On this day, we took a new-to-us short route up, to look over and see Hurricane Irene hit the Virginia coast.

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Fiddler crab poses, albeit a little unhappily) for us on the boardwalk from the beach back into Back Bay Wildlife Refuge, wherein he (that right claw is coming right along, young fella), was pretty much the only wildlife we saw.

Weekday-Visitor Geezer Troublemaker Sighted at Virginia State Park

"Access to False Cape State Park is only by foot, bicycle or boat," says the ranger at the entrance of the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, echoing the words of the state park brochure.
Gail looks out over Carvins Cove from the Appalachian Trail.

Medium Walk, Large View, Small Time

Part of the beauty of this hike is that, if you live in Roanoke and have a rushed weekend to squeeze a hike into, you can be to its trailhead in 20 minutes.

Tinker Cliffs Times 20: Still New

You do a hike for the 20th time over a seven-plus-year period and you ought to know its every twist and turn. Which we pretty much do for this favorite, though of course there are always a few small surprises:
Fruit of the piratebush, one of the rarest shrubs in the Eastern mountains.

New Trails in the Roanoke Valley

The recently cut trails in the preserve illustrate with just about every step of the walk the mammoth work of trail building.

Kurt’s Hikes: Good Afternoon, Irene

On this day, we took a new-to-us short route up, to look over and see Hurricane Irene hit the Virginia coast.
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