18 June 2011 Bearfence Rocks

Fun hike/rock scramble up to Bearfence Rocks in Shenandoah National Park today. AC and I are pretty sure we scrambled this loop once before about 10 years ago when we were younger, fitter, and there were fewer gnats. Sam loved this hike. I have never seen her move so fast along a trail. And it wasn’t to part the thick veil of gnats, it was to get to the next crop of rocks.

There were also millipedes aplenty:

And vistas:

See that splotch in the middle of my vista? That’s one of the aforementioned pesky gnats:

We’re planning on submitting some photos to a Shenandoah National Park photography contest. It’s a family contest.

Some of us are more serious about it than others.

If I don’t submit the gnat vista photo, maybe I’ll send in this one: