Thursday, January 16, 2014

Our Story

Valley Adventure Girls is a group of women who enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking, cross-country skiing, and rafting.  As women with these common interests, we often find ourselves in some of the most beautiful areas of nature.  At times, we simply enjoy the fresh air and peace of sitting next to a waterfall, or pushing ourselves to make it to the summit, and other times we enjoy the pulse-racing excitement that only a true adventure can bring.  This blog will allow us to share those experiences and hopefully encourage you to get out, share the sisterhood, and enjoy the great outdoors.

This year, we have set two goals.  The first goal is the hike 300 miles in 2014.  The second goal is to hike the top 20 hikes in or around Virginia according to this blog.

We started off the first day of this new year by reaching the first 5.13 miles of our 300 mile goal and marking one of the hikes off of the top 20 list.  That hike, Rose River Falls loop, will be reviewed in a separate post.

We thought that we would start reviewing the hikes,  to encourage others to go out and enjoy them.  We also thought it would be fun to rate them against the Virginia Trail Guide at the end of the year.  Some of the members have already done some of the hikes, but not everyone had so we thought it would be fun to do them again.  We hope you enjoy these reviews and would love comments, questions, and feedback.



3 comments:

  1. I love that you're trying to do the top 20 from our website! Good luck! We've been thinking about doing a countdown of our personal favorites, too. (It would be pretty different than the 20 most popular by traffic) :-)

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  2. Thanks and thank you for the inspiration. Work has been a little crazy lately and between that and the weather, it has been hard to post, but will be catching up soon.

    We are headed to Grayson Highlands and Mt Rogers on Saturday and then hiking McAfee Knob on our way home on Sunday, so plenty to post. We are really looking forward to Mt Rogers.

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  3. Mt. Rogers is my personal favorite - because ponies!

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