As our last hurrah before leaving Virginia we headed to West Virginia to camp and climb. Jim and a buddy Matt Hylton had been there previously and decided to would be fun to bring the families and camp the next time. So their climbing trip morphed into a multi-family camping trip with us reserving the last of the campsites for the Memorial Day weekend. It poured as we were driving up and setting up camp but cleared up shortly after and then was beautiful all weekend long. We had an amazing view of Seneca Rocks from our campsite. We set it up so each family was responsible for a meal so it made it nice not having to worry about cooking each meal and freed up more time to play. Some of the group went climbing each day including the older kids.
A group of us took the hiking trail to the top and even Maren and Kaikane, her 3 year old buddy hiked the whole way (1.5 miles, 1000 vertical feet to the top). The view was spectacular from up there and as you can see the ridge is very narrow.
We also did a cave tour one day and were able to do some gemstone mining while waiting. Here are some of the treasures they found in their mining rough.
It was a great weekend spent with friends!
Campbells, Fells, Carraways, Hyltons, Dahles, Napoleons
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