| May 31, 2005 |
| We're slack
packing today from the Ground Hog trail into the AT and back into
Pearisburg. We had to pick up Spirits Drop box this morning at
the Post Office and pick up a couple of other things. Phyllis
is going to spend the nigh with us at the Roundaview Motel again,
Then in the morning when ever we start out we'll come back up
the Ground Hog Trail and get back on the AT and be headed north
again. This we didn't have to take a complete zero day.
We can get in a little hiking this afternoon and have some relax
time. |
| It's a
beautiful Day in VA. A lot of people are starting to cut their
hay for their animals, which means a few days of good weather.
From the trail head we've come up through the pasture land and
entering the wood land. It's an open wood land, the trail
zigzags up through here and about 2 miles in length. This
section is about 13 miles. It's ridge line hiking until we get
down near Pearisburg, then it's 3 1/2 miles of boulders to go down. |
| A couple times
along the trail I've seen Blue Cohosh, almost out in bloom.
I'm seeing a white flower that almost looks like a parachute, the
petals are turned backwards and the inside of it is a little yellow
stamen that hangs down. The stem comes up out of 3 or 4 light
colored broad leaves. |
| The may
apples along the trail look like they have already bloomed and are
forming their little apples. This Peter's Mountain bald is
very long and very wide and extremely good grassy area for wild
life. |
| We just passed
Navigator going north, he camped a few miles down the trail from the
bald. I think we'll rename this area to fern heaven, there's a
lot of cinnamon in large groups and real tall, then you get into
what Spirit calls Angel ferns a little bright yellowish-greenish
fern that is low to the ground. |
| We cross a
style into another bald with lots of outcroppings. It's
extremely cloudy today, making it difficult to see very far.
We met several hikers going north out of Pearisburg. |
| It's been a
rather uneventful day, a beautiful day. The high light today
was seeing all the fern in mass underneath the hard wood trees.
This last mile has been the hardest mile we've done all day. But
there always seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. We
came off the steep hill into a pine grove area by a little creek.
It's been a good, we did thirteen miles. We actually started
on the AT 3:05pm. and it's now 8pm. Good night. |
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