Thursday, March 20, 2008

Deer Me! Hiking (a wee bit of) the AT

What's the AT? you ask. For us veterans of long distance hiking, we have our own explanation. For the rest of you couch potatoes, the Appalachian Trail is 2,175 miles of the most bucolic and famous hiking trail in the US. We decided to tackle the AT (well,  4 miles of it anyway). This was just the first of many warmups to our June 2-6, 5 day, 56 miler.

The first thing we discovered was that we were not alone.

What we didn't realize was that Pete's dragon was somewhere near.

Well, it looked big on the book cover.

Taralyn decided to use her awesome hooded exercise jacket to it's fullest.



We made it to the top of Stony man Mountain, second highest point in Virginia.

6 comments:

Tiffany said...

Looks beautiful! Did Suede go along for the ride? Good luck on the 50 miler in June. We're doing a Pioneer Trek about the same time! Hope not quite 50 miles though!! Love and miss you lots!

Melanie said...

Wow- that is beautiful! I especially love the "huge
cliffs"! You guys are awesome!

Sarah said...

How beautiful! Looks like you two had a great time!

Nancy and Spencer said...

DANG! I wish i were as rugged as Tar & Craig... if only! :)

Shelley said...

Looks like a great place to hike! Wish we had a fun place like that around here! :) Good luck in June!

Anonymous said...

One of my goals in life is to do the whole AT! Maybe we can do it together sometime!