hiking friends are the best friends. especially the ones who invite you on a random monday to drive two hours away to another state, to go hiking in the middle of winter. it was just what i needed in the middle of all the thanksgiving, baking, birthday, christmas, etc chaos. so what i’m saying is, get yourselves a heather p.
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our destination was grayson highlands state park in virginia, famous for it’s roaming wild ponies. i have been there once, with anna two years ago, and we saw so many ponies, so i never expected that on this trip, we wouldn’t see a single furry friend. it was still fantastic and pretty. we had the trails entirely to ourselves, which meant we had to trade photo duties all the way up.
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we may or may not have staged a few candids. 🙂
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i mean. it was a really pretty day. cold. but pretty.
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the previous pic and this next one were taken by a really nice man we met at the “peak”. (there’s lots of little peaks to traverse across the park).
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the route we took back down was really cool. through little cave/tunnels and such. i never tire of that.
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anyways. it was a lovely time of catching up with my pal. getting outside. getting a little workout. all the things. except ponies. here’s some people free scenery.
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we had hoped to do another little hike further in the park, but the gate was closed, so we settled for a pretty steep trail near this one, and all in all ended up hiking about 4.5 miles. not too shabby.
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then we hopped back in the car for the long drive back to ws/nc. and began to plan our next hiking trip…