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This page is our attempt to describe the trails in Virginia and surrounding states which we have walked ,also to share tips we have learned along the way. The Tips section is ever Growing ,check it out.
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Afton Mountain is a good indicator for
the weather in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Cold Weather is good ! Winter in my opinion is the best time to go camping.It eliminates alot of the problems associated with hot weather, you don't have to deal with any bugs, and if your sleeping bag is up to it you sleep alot better in the cold than you do in the hot.
A winter landscape seems much more vast and lonely than a summer one. This believe it or not is preferable to me. I go not to escape daily life or hide from the modern world, but to see life in a different light, to see how harsh nature can really be, and in a sense to make me feel smaller, less individual and more in tune with the world as opposed to against it. I want to coexist with nature ,not to fight it off with all the conveniences of modern day life, not to try to control it. The winter is not safe, it can kill you if you don't go prepared, but that is part of the experience----surviving.
Links to fellow hikers(send me an address to be included)
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