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We picked this pretty-easy section of Appalachian Trail, in order to do some poking around at the former site of Camp Kewanzee, which was operated from 1926 to 1950, and had its 500-acre territory shrunk in 1939 when the parkway people came along.

If it's a beautiful, tease-of-spring day, it's an especially beautiful tease-of-spring day on the Great Trail, and even more especially with The Greatest Day Hiker.

Some Valentine's Day anniversaries of our first weekly hike (Feb. 14, 2004) are better than others. On this, our eighth return to the scene of the original crime, the day was warm enough to walk with two layers and no gloves or ear cover.

Maybe part of the reason we'd never gone up the Little Rocky Row Trail off of U.S. 501 along the James is that it is off of U.S. 501, where the trailhead's easy to miss and the parking is 200 yards away and on the

With temperatures projected to be in the 50s, it seemed like a safe-enough day from the perspective of weather to go up to 3,250-foot Barney's Wall above the Cascades in Giles County, Va.