Skyline Drive – Reverse Maslow

Here are the pictures and videos I took from Skyline Drive 2014. Pictures are below; click on any of them to start a full-screen slideshow of all of them. Below them are the videos; click a video to start it. (Note: there appears to be a bug in the way WordPress associates captions with pictures, in that the caption from the previous picture in a slideshow is sometimes incorrectly repeated in the current one. For pictures for which that’s the case, I’ve added a (correct) description under the (incorrect) caption. Also note that the videos may take a while to load, but they will work eventually…)

The first break in the trees on our way up Old Rag.

The view looking southeast at one of the first major rest stops on Old Rag.

The view looking south at the same Old Rag rest stop.

The first traffic jam on the way up Old Rag.

The view looking through the exit of a rock crawl portion of Old Rag.

The start of the second traffic jam on the uphill portion of Old Rag.

The second traffic jam continued, with a RandomBen on the right. :)

A picturesque vista near the summit of Old Rag.

One of Old Rag’s most prominent random rocks.

At the Old Rag summit with Ben.

On the fire road during the downhill portion of Old Rag. In the hands of a better photographer, this would be a great subject for a Virginia/Shenandoah National Park calendar photo.

A washed-out portion of the downhill leg of Old Rag.

Another calendar-worthy Old Rag subject, this time of a pedestrian bridge on the downhill portion of Old Rag.

The first “waterfall” on the Doyles River Falls trail. I don’t think this one makes the trail guides. :)

A picturesque stream across the Doyles River Falls trail.

A vertical panorama of one of the very old trees on the Doyles River Falls trail. An update to the camera app on my phone allowed that functionality, so I had to try it out. :)