Appalachian Trail, Skyline Drive at Waynesboro 1/13/13

 

We went up intending to get on Skyline Drive and follow it to mile marker 99 and Beagle Gap, then hike the 1.2 up and back to Bear Den Mountain. However, Skyline Drive was closed there due to snow and downed trees. The info booth guy sent us an hour up to Elkton to get on the other end of Skyline Drive just to find out we still couldn’t get there.  We stopped and did some shopping at Rockfish Gap Outfitters, where one of the guys fell in love with Ollie.

Then we drove back to Exit 99, our starting point, with the plan of just walking up the hill at Skyline Drive to see whatever we could see. Um. Duh.  We were standing on the AT. It goes from the woods up the hill, down through the parking area and across the overpass, then down the hill on the Blue Ridge Parkway side. We went a few yards up the Trail into the woods but it was already after 4:00 so we had to hurry home.

We WILL be back!