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Category: George Washington National Forest

Located in west central Virginia, this area was combined with Jefferson National Forest in 1995. Together, these forests contain a beautiful 1.8 million acres. Here are our trail stories from George Washington National Forest . . .

  • George Washington National Forest

Virginia’s Falling Spring Falls Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on March 31, 2020August 17, 2020

President Thomas Jefferson and I have something in common: We both were charmed by Falling Spring Falls, a mystical eighty-foot waterfall in the beautiful blue Alleghany Highlands.

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Virginia’s The Priest Hike and Camp

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on December 20, 2019April 27, 2020

It was the most beautiful hike we have yet to be on: Colorful flower blooms lined the trail and the most breathtaking mountain cliff sunset and sunrise made this hike extraordinarily magical.

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West Virginia’s White Rock Cliff Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on July 25, 2019December 26, 2019

This cliff view resembled a painting: There were trees with pops of vibrant reds, yellows, and greens — others, white with flower pedals. Then, as if it couldn’t get any better, a bald eagle shot out from the valley, swooping in the air before circling over the Blue Ridge.

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Virginia’s Mount Pleasant Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on May 9, 2019December 26, 2019

It felt a mighty battle between gods for light and darkness.  Deep grey clouds suffocated the sun and loomed over the blue valley while the sun struggled to pierce through in broken patches of light.

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Virginia’s Spy Rock Hike and Camp

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on April 8, 2018December 26, 2019

This hike goes down as one of our top three, and lucky for us we got a mountain sunset and sunrise there, along with a series of waterfalls, a 360-degree summit view, small campsite on a cliff face, and of course a walk on the Appalachian Trail.

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West Virginia’s Big Schloss Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on March 4, 2018December 26, 2019

This was our first snow hike, and it left us admiring the landscape, feeling appreciative to have winding trails and mountains like this one to climb.

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West Virginia’s Tibbet Knob Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on January 29, 2018December 26, 2019

Our first hike together in 2018 comes with possible bear markings, a vista that has dramatic drop offs, and — of course — another dose of direction miscalculations.

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Virginia’s Cole/Cold Mountain Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on February 17, 2017December 26, 2019

It definitely looked like smoke. It even smelt like there was wood burning, which really panicked both of us so we needed to hustle and get out of the forest because we were in the most serious hiking trouble we’ve yet to be in.

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Virginia’s Saint Mary’s Wilderness Trail Hike and Camp

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on December 21, 2016December 26, 2019

To say we felt barely holding onto life, to say we felt drained in all mental and physical states, to say we felt like champions by the end — all of that, an understatement. Except for the champions bit. We were, we are champions.

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Virginia’s Dobie Mountain Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on August 14, 2016December 26, 2019

This hike was the opposite of my last — Opposite in every way opposite can be. But that equaled calmness, exactly what I wanted right now. Plus, it had two vistas, an awesome shelter location, and even a plane crash site.

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Virginia’s Emerald Pond Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on August 3, 2016June 17, 2020

The only way to summarize this hike is through a quote: “Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes. True love. Miracles.”

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Virginia’s Crabtree Falls Hike

  • by Soul of a Seeker
  • Posted on July 11, 2016December 26, 2019

Alright, I’m setting a loose and lofty goal of going on at least two hikes every month. Lucky for me, I made new hiker friends and was able to pack my pack a second time, just seven days after my first hike.

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Walking to the very spot on Franklin Cliffs in She Walking to the very spot on Franklin Cliffs in Shenandoah National Park where Andy proposed...

Photo courtesy Ash Carr Photography
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I know it’s silly to say this (because I love th I know it’s silly to say this (because I love them all) but this is one of my favorite pictures from our elopement ❤️
Every time we went hiking we talked about how incredible it would be to happen upon an officiant and photographer who could marry us — marry us on the trial, marry us even as we were sweaty and in hiking clothes and boots. True we are definitely dressed up for our wedding but that feeling we talked about so many times — of feeling comfortable and in our element, of feeling happy, of feeling carefree, more — I just feel that this picture captures all perfectly ❤️

Photo courtesy Ash Carr Photography 
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We met as strangers interested in becoming hiking We met as strangers interested in becoming hiking partners and from there, talks of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trial became our dream. Andy proposed at the very spot we got married — Shenandoah’s Franklin Cliffs on the coveted AT ❤️
It was a private elopement with just Andy and me, our officiant and our photographer/florist, and it honestly could not have been better...

Photo courtesy Ash Carr Photography 
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