Trail Registers

These trail registers are in all the shelters and also some hiker friendly spots in town. Its a great way to keep up with your buds on the trail and share your experience. Theres usually some kind of drawing or cartoon and some good motivational stuff.  

Virginia.......

It feels like forever ago since I got into Virginia...but it has been over a month. Im awhile behind most of the people I had been hiking before I got off the trail but really thats the only set back I took. I did decide to jump 150 miles ahead from where I left off (150 miles that I will come back for) for a couple of reasons; one being that I was trying to get back in the pack and also trying to get ahead of some of the summer heat. Virginia has had its ups and downs...a lot of southern virginia was very uneventful. The forest has been in full bloom here and even at the highest peaks the trees can still block out any view. On the plus side all the tree coverage makes for A LOT of shade on a sunny day. A good way to describe some of Virginia is that its been like a scene in "Avatar". The weather has actually been excellent for hiking this past couple weeks with cooler days and lows at night around 50. My pops decided to come up again and hike for awhile. I think he likes doing this almost as much as me. We're in Waynesboro, VA today and we REALLY enjoyed with Chinese buffet tonight:) Theres 160 miles left in VA and its mostly thru the Shenandoah National Park which im really looking forward to! Headed there tomorrow!

Damascus to Waynesboro,Va

                                                                Fancy motel in Atkins, VA     

                                                 Damascus,VA an Awesome town for hikers.

                                   

                                     Greyson Highlands made me feel a little like I was out west

                                                                       Old school house

                                           

       

                 

                                                  Stonewall Jackson Cemetery in Lexington.

                                                                        Lexington,VA

               Cheesy bacon salmon and rice with mass amonts of salt and pepper....Eating good out here

                                                                     Mcafees Knob

                         Every shelter has some kind of water source near by. This is this shelters water source...

                                                                       

                                                 A super nice shelter that holds 20 people

                                                     Birds nest above the bear bags in a shelter

                                         

                                                               

                          Coming up a foggy mountain in the pouring rain to see this...Crrrreeeepppyyy

 

"Trail Angel" Peyton provides trail magic a few times every year and set up chairs and had cheeseburgers and beer for us hikers.  

                                                          The rocks have been pretty nasty

                       "Thru driving" the A.T, Rock Ocean giving us a ride in his Volkswagen Van