May 28, 2007...2:48 am
The Photos - Part 2
After accepting the fact that I have been suffering from a bit of burnout, I decided to take a quick trip to Virginia. We have a camper along the New River. It isn’t a permanent spot. And, it isn’t a nice, quiet spot back in the mountains. The campground is designed for maximum profit for the owner. And that’s ok. No one bothered me and there wasn’t a bunch of loud noise late into the evening.
While there we rode through town. They were getting ready for Memorial Day.
We traveled up Big Stoney Creek Road then to Rt 600 to Waitville and back. It was a very nice ride!
We came across a buffalo farm/ranch. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen buffalo. It was interesting. They smell.
Driving through the Jefferson National Forest we quickly realized that there had been a terrible forest fire. The odor was still strong, but you could see that Mother Nature was working to recover. The contrast between the blackend tree trunks and the fresh green fern fronds shooting up was amazing.
Big Stoney Creek runs through the forest. It was a very interesting body of water. But so was Little Stoney Creek and the Cascade Falls.
In order to get to the falls you have to pay $3.00 fee to the Forest Service and walk two miles up an extremely rocky and narrow trail. Actually, there are two trails. The sign calls one “lazy”. But, neither of them are. We chose the upper trail first, which it harder. It was a tough angle up the side of the mountain. We came down the “lazy” path. It had many more rocks and stones, making the hike very hard on the feet. There were tons of people and most dragging their poor dogs.
The trail is not for the squeemish or acraphobic. Although I underestimated the demands of the trails, it was probably the best part of the time away. Unfortunately, I had to return to the real world today.
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