After climbing the northern AT terminus on August 18, we spent a few days driving south while stopping periodically to see friends/family and do some non-mountain sightseeing. Here are a few of the people and places we saw during our drive:
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Playing an old sailing game called “skittles” at the Penopscot Marine Museum…
Lobstah on the Maine coast…
Visited David & Sue Browning in southern New Hampshire…
Camping with cousin Alethea and children Jane & Bobby in New York…
Spent time with cousin Delia and daughters Quinn & Alanna in New Jersey…
We then spent a few days in the Shenandoah Valley visiting family and friends, and took advantage of mobility (our car) to slack-pack (no big pack) the southern 45 miles of the Shenandoah Park AT over two of those days…saw a few bears. 🙂
Then it was again time to get sweaty, strap the packs back on and continue the journey south…
Mom & Dad Miller dropped us off at Rockfish Gap…
From a rattlesnake? Couldn’t really tell…still haven’t had THAT encounter…
Pleasantly smooth trails with switchbacks are making the hiking quite more enjoyable…
Walking through old apple orchards of homesteads displaced by the creation of the Blue Ridge Parkway…
Across the James River Foot Bridge…
Le Guillotine…
FAA radar dome atop Apple Orchard Mountain…
Blue Ridges…
Old AT marker…
Smurfs?
Maybe…
Troutville, VA from the south…
Hiking toward Tinker Cliffs…
There’s a bear in that mass of foliage…
Lambert Meadows campsite…
Atop Tinker Cliffs looking toward McAfee Knob…
On “the knob”…
McAfee Knob, that is…
Upon reaching Catawba Mountain Shelter, Steve can already say he’s hiked the whole trail (in sections, that is…did everything south of here in the early ’90s)…
Another bear, again hard to photograph in the dark woods…
“Rescued” by Jess’s mother & step-dad at Catawba for a few rest days. Thanks Kitty & Mike!
Milander Adventures 2015 AT 
Love your pictures!
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Can’t beat Blue Ridge vistas! Onward to Georgia! Proud of you!
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Pics look awesome! You guys are tearing it up!
-Rock Boat
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Jess, don’t get near any precipitous cliffs.
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Looking good. Enjoying the pictures.
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What is a crab-like, owl-like, bat-like creature doing on the boulder above the waterfall in your photo above the lost apples of the Blue Ridge??? Will accept answer from you or any other Responder willing to make a guess,
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