| May 30, 2005 |
| Left a 8:50am
hiking back up hill to the AT, should be in Pearisburg in early
afternoon. We had biscuits, butter and jelly, orange juice,
coffee this morning for breakfast before we left. |
| Back on the AT
and guess what going straight up on rocks and more rocks.
Going through an open woods area, with the usual hard woods, some
scrub bushes, orange and pink honeysuckles blooming and good size
buds on the Laurel, just about ready to pop out. Haven't seen
any wild flowers. The trail has smoothed out and is fairly
level right now. Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day. |
| Going through
an area that really cool because it has larger tree canopy with a
little sun peeking through. A lot of oak trees, probably 16 to
18 inched in diameter. Just came out on a fire road.
There's some good size pines in this area. We're hiking up
this forest service fire road and the rhododendrons and in full
bloom, ranging from a dark pink to a light lilac.. A lot of
small ferns for undergrowth and a bunch of striped maple trees.
Stopped in at Doc's Shelter for a short rest and a water break and
also to sigh the register book. The rhododendrons blooms are
the size of a soft ball. |
| Just heard a
den of little kit foxes, off in a distance. They were really
noisy for a little while. We're still hiking on the same road,
however we're going up in elevation gradually. We've started
hiking up a 2300' elevation to Angel's Rest. It's straight up
to the ridge line and the trail is full of tiny little rocks making
it difficult to hike on. Standing in the clearing under power
lines I can look way off into the distance. The last mountain
I can see is a light blue up against the horizon with big white
clouds. |
| That was
a real steep incline we just came up. No switch backs, full of
rocks, extremely steep. Up on the ridge line now, and we can
look over into the valley on the east side. Trail goes along
some really rocky areas, layered rock, exposed rock and then widens
out and becomes fairly grassy. We're hiking right on top of
Boulder Rock Cliff. We had to hop from one boulder rock to
another. |
| Stopped by a
spring, had some water and cooked some noodles to replenish our body
strength. We were very tire after coming up to the top of the
hill and decided to get something to eat and rest a while. |
| Going down a
rocky area just along the edge of the outcroppings. The trail
goes through 2 big boulder piles. Going out past the rocks to
a place they call Angels Rest Rock. Angels Rest Rock looks
over one part of the town of Pearisburg. The rocks are laying
horizontal, diagonal and veridical all in the same big pile. I
just came across what looked like rabbit fur in the trail.
Some poor rabbit has met his demise. Probably that mother fox
taking that rabbit back to her kits. |
| We're going
down hill 3 miles into the town of Pearisburg, where we'll spend the
night at the Rondaview Motel. Phyllis is waiting on us there
with a mail drop and we'll go to the post office tomorrow. |
| The motel was
just a few hundred yard from the AT. |
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