Hiking

Today, since I've been working in Virginia, I decided to drive to Shenandoah National Park for a day hike. I did a trail up Old Rag Mountain (peak 3288 ft). The parking area was between eight and nine hundred feet, so there was about 2400 ft. of elevation gain to reach the top. The total trail was just over 7.2 miles, with a .8 mile walk from the parking area to the trail head. I finished in just over 4 hours! Unfortuneatly, I didn't bring my day pack, or hiking boots with me, so I had to carry 4 bottles of water in my pants pockets, and hike in my steel toe boots. Oh well, I still enjoyed it. I'll post some pictures I took in a few days.

There were only two down sides to the trip, one it was a pretty popular trail, and with in driving distance of DC, so it was fairly crowded, but not too bad. The other was the fact that today was very hazy, so you the veiws weren't as spectacular as they could have been.