A Short Hike

Gortex boots = dry feet no matter where you're standing:

Meadows always make me think of Bambi.Photographic evidence of the Professor drinking water instead of soda:

Aaron flying across the hiking trail:

And we made it back right before it got dark:

Pumpkins & Stakes

The ground cover in the mountains are beautiful this weekend. Lots or reds & oranges.

See, Theresa matches!

She brought me a pumpkin leaf. I tried to smile and open my eyes for the picture, but it was too bright...

That's the best I could do...

Then, since it was Halloween and we were very concerned about vampires - Aaron made a double-sided wooden stake.

Thanks to him, we were fully prepared for a vampire attack. No blood-sucking on our campsite!
Fortunately - it wasn't a full moon - so we didn't have to worry about werewolves.

Storybook Trail View

The Storybook Trail consists of this uber-fascinating history of how the mountains of the Shenandoah were formed. Did you know that there was once a giant lake covering the east central U.S.? As I said, uber-fascinating...

The view at the end of the 1/4 mile, level, paved trail is pretty sweet:

Aaron claiming the point: