Last weekend, to celebrate being done with my semester, I went camping in Shenandoah National Park. I went with two friends, and we joined a meetup.com group, so we met everyone else for the first time. We camped at Big Meadows...
On the drive up on Friday night after work, we saw soooo many deer! Here's one close-up that we saw the next day...
We didn't see any bear, but one couple did on their drive into the park...we must have just missed it, because we weren't too far behind them...
It was Wildflower Weekend, which is why we went camping there, so Saturday morning we went on a ranger led 'wildflower hike'...
We were probably about a week too early for there to be a lot of wildflowers...here are some not so great wildflower close-ups...
Me, Heather, and Marc at the overlook, our turnaround point on the ranger led wildflower hike...
Snail checking out out the overlook...it's a long way down...
Another overlook along the hike, looking west...
Had a picnic lunch at yet another overlook, with our new friends Eric and Catherine...
Waterfall we hiked to on our 2nd hike Saturday afternoon...although we were told later that this wasn't the 'big one'...maybe we should have stayed with the ranger for this hike...
We found two black cobras just off the trail...
And what's this?
Oh, it's just a toad...but of course we all had to take photos...
So after getting a little lost (another reason we should have stayed with the ranger), we ended up hiking an extra three miles back to our campsite (not our cars mind you, those were still at the overlook where we started)...but we got to hike across the 'Big Meadow'...
We saw a few deer...and of course had to get more photos...
Cool tree...
Almost back to our campsite...
Starting up the fire to make dinner...I need to get me one of those...
Our campsite...
Playing cribbage...
Cooking dinner...couscous with red potatoes...
We headed home Sunday after packing up camp...stopped at some overlooks on the way out of the park...looking west, toward Shenandoah Mtn/Valley/River...
Heather & Marc...
Heather and I...
Looking east...
Required dead tree pic...
Marc snuggling with the Reynolds wrap in the back seat on the drive home...
If anyone wants to go camping this summer...let me know...I'm going to organize another trip...
On the drive up on Friday night after work, we saw soooo many deer! Here's one close-up that we saw the next day...
We didn't see any bear, but one couple did on their drive into the park...we must have just missed it, because we weren't too far behind them...
It was Wildflower Weekend, which is why we went camping there, so Saturday morning we went on a ranger led 'wildflower hike'...
We were probably about a week too early for there to be a lot of wildflowers...here are some not so great wildflower close-ups...
Me, Heather, and Marc at the overlook, our turnaround point on the ranger led wildflower hike...
Snail checking out out the overlook...it's a long way down...
Another overlook along the hike, looking west...
Had a picnic lunch at yet another overlook, with our new friends Eric and Catherine...
Waterfall we hiked to on our 2nd hike Saturday afternoon...although we were told later that this wasn't the 'big one'...maybe we should have stayed with the ranger for this hike...
We found two black cobras just off the trail...
And what's this?
Oh, it's just a toad...but of course we all had to take photos...
So after getting a little lost (another reason we should have stayed with the ranger), we ended up hiking an extra three miles back to our campsite (not our cars mind you, those were still at the overlook where we started)...but we got to hike across the 'Big Meadow'...
We saw a few deer...and of course had to get more photos...
Cool tree...
Almost back to our campsite...
Starting up the fire to make dinner...I need to get me one of those...
Our campsite...
Playing cribbage...
Cooking dinner...couscous with red potatoes...
We headed home Sunday after packing up camp...stopped at some overlooks on the way out of the park...looking west, toward Shenandoah Mtn/Valley/River...
Heather & Marc...
Heather and I...
Looking east...
Required dead tree pic...
Marc snuggling with the Reynolds wrap in the back seat on the drive home...
If anyone wants to go camping this summer...let me know...I'm going to organize another trip...
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