Vanlog, Blackwater Falls State Park
August 9, 2020
A sunny Sunday found us cooking bacon and eggs in our private free campsite in the Monongahela National Forest before driving the 11 gravel miles out to civilization. We headed north to Seneca Rocks, where we hiked rapidly up the 950 ft elevation gain in 1.6 miles to these unique narrow rock outcropping. A favorite spot in West Virginia for hikers we were on the trail before the crowds and the heat. In fact it was only 55 deg when we started out. Brian climbed over the first of the two humps at the top but the second one was a bit more dangerous.
The second part of our day was spent at Blackwater Falls, a very popular and short 0.8 mile RT hike on a boardwalk to the spectacular waterfall shown below.
We then experienced a low point as we struggled to find the remote Dolly Sods Wilderness and then decided the narrow steep gravel bumpy roads through the wilderness were not intended for our Vanna White. But it was beautiful.
But the day finished on a high note back in our campground at Blackwater Falls State Park where we saw a bunch of deer at dusk including this guy right in our campsite as tame as can be and captured a beautiful sunset!
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