The Blue Ridge Mountains!
Some of my blog posts have all words and no photos. Those ones tend to be more serious... but some are all photos and adventure! :) This one will be the latter.
Two fellow Duke graduate students were planing a camping trip to hike along the Blue Ridge Mountains to summit the highest peak in Virginia, Mt Rodgers. They sent out a mass invite to many students in the area, but evidently I was the only one who responded. They thought I may be deterred in going as I was the only girl, but boy were they wrong! This girl needed to get into the mountains, she was not too particular who took her!
You will see my tent on the right and the boy's tent on the left. :)
You will also see the mostly sad faces of my camping partners as we could not start a fire!! Because it was so humid in the mountains, nothing would catch fire! We could not even get cardboard to stay on fire because it was so humid!
After just a few setbacks... here is what the adventure looked like the next morning. The hike was along a portion of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia.
The summit of Mt. Rodgers at 5,728 feet.
Highest Peak in Virginia
Wild Appalachian Ponies!!! However they seemed pretty tame to me... :)
And last, but not least. We ran into this tractor graveyard on our way home. It went on for acres!
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