Shenandoah

We spent a beautiful weekend over in the Blue Ridge Mountains at Shenandoah National Park with Matt and Holli, and their little Charly. The weather was absolute perfection, and the company we had made it just a really swell day.

We decided to hike to the to the top of the tallest mountain in the park, and hike a bit along the Appalachian Trail. While the views at the top were beautiful, most of the hike looked like we were walking through the woods by our house. But it still felt so nice being up in the mountains. I've missed that a lot.

Holli and I have been hiking buddies since we hiked all over China in 2007.  Look here for more fun hiking moments. We've added a few people to our crew over the years.

Cute little Charly passed out on her new friendVictor

 So, the picture above is the view of the peak that we climbed to the top of. Now, you should know that the Blue Ridge Mountains do get pretty tall and all, but being a native Utahn, this sure doesn't look too impressive to me! It's not quite the same as looking at a picture of Angel's Landing at Zion's and thinking, "wow, I really climbed to the top of that??" Basically, I've been spoiled as far as cool mountains go. Utah beats Virginia in that department. But Virginia beats Utah in how green everything is, hands down.

Then we did a little antiquing and cider shopping in the town outside of the park.

 Beautiful weekend. Virginia is beautiful this time of year.