Appalachian Trail pics

**ChattanCat** · 9th November 08, 06:19 AM

Hey, I havn't seen that part of the App. trail. I did hike in PA.

**Drillagent** · 9th November 08, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by SFCRick

great fall pics, just how much more fine they would be with The Kilt being sported in them.

I wanted to go kilted, but the family wasn't having it. I don't have the best support base for my kilts. In the spring I'll definately have kilted hiking pics.

**Sir William** · 9th November 08, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by Drillagent

...For those history buffs, the Shenandoah was originally settled by Scots and Scotch-Irish back when America was still a colony.

I'll have to look at these pictures when I get home as the base computers (for those of us temporarily assigned to the base here in the Middle East) don't allow the pictures to open. But you're right, the AT and Shenandoah Valley are beautiful this time of year.

I found out a couple of years ago that I had kin from Scotland who settled down near Staunton around the 1730s. One of these days I need to get down that way to see the land they settled on. Last time I was down there I didn't know the family history.

**fudgeman** · 9th November 08, 10:59 PM

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.

**GMan** · 10th November 08, 10:08 PM

These pictures tell me why fall is my favorite time of year.

**cavscout** · 11th November 08, 07:02 AM

This really is one of the best ways to spend the day with your family! I believe the stretch of the AT in VA is the best section to hike as far as scenery and level of difficulty. Just miles and miles of beautiful nature.

**Rogerson785** · 11th November 08, 08:52 AM

Great pictures, would have been better kilted but I understand that sometimes going kilted is not an option.

GG · 11th November 08, 08:51 PM

Beautiful pictures and an amazing nature.

Greg

**Riverkilt** · 11th November 08, 10:04 PM

Ahhh, so beautiful. Thanks for the memories too. I used to get paid to travel that part of the world when I lived in Richmond, then Bristol, back in the early 70s...

There's great food lurking up there too. I Narrow Passage Tavern (?) with its family style serving of home cooking and peanut butter soup still there?

And there was an old country store where they'd cut you some "rat cheese" off a wheel that you could wash down with fresh cider....

And down home cookin' in restaurants where desert was peach pie and the screen door creaked just right....

Ron