The Blue Ridge

Elkton, Virginia
38 24.437 N 078 37.256 W

Boy are we having fun!   We spent the last three days camping on Loan Mountain off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.   This place is a new candidate for favorite.   The mountain scenery is beautiful, and since Labor day is past there are no crowds.   We are really really enjoying ourselved here.

150 yards behind our tent is the Appalachian Trail.  Also there is a rock promontory that lets you sit and see to infinity.   Does anyone remember the opening scene of the movie "Sergeant York" where Gary Cooper sat on a rock contemplating infinity in the Ozarks?  This place looks like that.
It is especially nice in the evening, and it is west facing so we see spectacular sunsets.

Two nights ago, neighboring campers heard a bear rooting around out tent at night.  They got a picture of him at dawn.   We had all our food locked in the car according to the rules.   But that leads to an unsettling question.   Is it a good thing to lock our food in the car making us the only tasty bear food nearby?   It doesn't help when your partner says, "I hope you didn't brush your teeth before coming to bed.  They say that bears love the smell of  toothpaste."

It fun what you can do with a 10 second delay on your camera.  Just don't step back.

 

Panorama from the summit of Blackrock Mountain this morning.

We have two more days of Blue Ridge camping to go, then off to civilization, a motel, and a Westsail Rendezvous on The Chesapeake.