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pink blaze… AQUA BLAZE! So instead of hiking throght the Shenandoahs, I decided to canoe along the river instead. I had heard that the trail crosses over the road every other mile and that a lot of people just walk along the Skyline Drive, which used to be the old trail but I guess they [...] Thats me ontop of Mcaffee’s Knob. They call it the Virginia Blues, the feeling of hopelessness that you’re never going to get out of Virginia. Its the biggest state on the trail, over 500 miles long. Virginia was supposed to be the promise land, it was going to be flat, easy hiking, switchbacks. I guess [...] The section of the trail through the Great Smoky Mountains has been my favorite so far. Although there have been many beautiful parts of the trail, I loved the Smokies. The smell of the evergreens and the amazing views from some of the ridge walks were fantastic. The air was just different there. Still hiking. Wish I had awesome philisophical epiphanies to share but I don’t. I’m mostly mentally tied up in the day to day events, planning has become secondary almost pointless activity because things change all the time and then there’s the weather. I got a call the other day that some people found my site [...] |
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