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new river gorge day five.
rafting the upper new with the girls.

Posted on June 17, 2022June 25, 2022by sarah

on our last day at new river gorge national park, i took hazel and anna on a very chill white water rafting (floating) trip on the upper new river. i had already gone with anna on a slightly more adventurous trip on the lower new earlier in the week, but we had a leftover credit […]

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new river gorge day four.
grand view, castle rock trail, grist mill

Posted on June 16, 2022June 24, 2022by sarah

if you’re reading these in real time as i publish them, i’m skipping to day four of our trip because we are still waiting on the professional photos of day three (white water rafting with anna). if not, ignore this disclaimer and maybe i’ll even take it down once i make the day three post. […]

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new river gorge day three.
white water rafting with the annababy.

Posted on June 15, 2022July 14, 2022by sarah

for anna and me, the highlight of our west virginia new river gorge national park camping trip was a white water rafting trip on the new river. we were strongly advised not to bring our phones on the trip, so the only photos i have are the professional ones taken by a local photography company, […]

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new river gorge day two.
cathedral falls, endless wall, the bridge.

Posted on June 14, 2022June 24, 2022by sarah

for our second day in the new river gorge, we headed north to do some exploring. we had a few things planned around fayetteville, but we took the advice of an instagram friend who said the previous nights torrential downpours would fill up cathedral falls, and took a slight detour to check it out. slight […]

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new river gorge day one.
sandstone and kate’s falls

Posted on June 13, 2022June 24, 2022by sarah

we have always wanted to visit new river gorge, but it’s so close that it’s one of those places you just keep putting off until another time. then it became an official national park, so we pushed it up the list, and finally made it happen this summer, basically the minute school ended for the […]

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west virginia. mountain mama.

Posted on May 17, 2016September 27, 2016by sarah

the first leg of the official official lidbom rambling road show was to a little spot in west virginia, about ten minutes north of charleston. we arrived late at night and had to navigate some super windy, dark, narrow country roads. but we survived. this was what we were dealing with, only in daylight. and […]

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