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Brin 
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Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Location: Manassas, Va Online Status: Offline Posts: 93 |
 Calendar Event: What is your favoritePosted: 25 Apr 2011 at 9:47pm |
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We will be there from 5/31 until 6/5 (leaving in am) at site F198. It is a decent site but is situated fairly near a skunks home in the culvert. So far he hasn't bothered us---maybe he will have moved on. I like those sites on the edge by the AT. It would be nice to wake up to that view. Can you put the dome up on that site. We did have trouble with using it on a different site due to a tree being in the way. I don't get reliable reception for the phone up there so it is difficult to contact us easily but I am sure we would be easy to spot. Do you know if they have any diesel pumps up there yet? Two years ago they didn't. |
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Terri and Craig and Panzer
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Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 10:15am |
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Opinion?????
I've only stayed at Loft Mountain.......is Big Meadows (or any others) better?
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Leaflin
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Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 24 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 12:56pm |
We are hoping to go to the beach that week but if we don't we may come up for the day. I haven't been to Camp Hoover in years and would love to see it again.
F198 is a great site but I didn't know that about the skunk!
I'm not sure about the dome.
There is a tree there and we had enough room for our awning with our last TT.
I'll find a pic for you.
I doubt they have added diesel.
Here's the pic.
This TT was almost twice as long as th R-Pod as well as wider. I think the dome would fit.
I'll see if I can find a pic with the R-Pod in it.
 The View
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Leaflin
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Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 24 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 1:15pm |
Big Meadows is my favorite on Skyline. It was the first place we ever camped almost 40 years ago. There is a lot to do there and walking the Meadow is so serene.
Loft Mountain has had problems with ticks the last few years so we haven't camped there recently.
Lewis Mountain is small and close together, I really don't like it that much.
They have closed half of Mathews Arm, it is ok but the closed part is very run over.
Panorama, though not a camp ground is closed now. We use to go up there for lunch.
My favorite is Lake Sherando which is off the Blue Ridge Parkway but close to Skyline Drive
(but don't tell anyone).
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Brin
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Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Location: Manassas, Va Online Status: Offline Posts: 93 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 1:33pm |
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I have only stayed at Big Meadows too. I love the area around the campground to walk around in the evening after we get back from a hike. The shower is close enough to walk to. They have the lodge open after mid May and we often go there for a sandwich and some "entertainment" in the evenings.
Loft Mountain looks good and I would like to try it sometime. Big Meadows is closer so we have always just stopped there. Do you have a site number that you recommend at Loft Mountain? If you are tent camping, I would suggest site 37 (if you don't mind carrying your stuff to your site) it is the furtherest one into the woods and most secluded. It does have a bear box to store your stuff.
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Terri and Craig and Panzer
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techntrek
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Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 4:28pm |
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I'll have to try Shenandoah some time with the 'pod. I've backpacked through there a few times, but haven't been there since I did Old Rag maybe 6 years ago.
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Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 6:32pm |
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Judging by the pictures of Big Meadows, it looks better than Loft Mountain. I've stayed in the low "A" numbered sites on the main road in. Some have some good views and are close to the AT. Most of the sites are "pull thru - half circles", so they are easy to get in/out of. However, you'll have the sun in your eyes in the evening. The more rustic sites seem to be in the "generator free" F & G loops. On the southern end of the campground....not many live trees/shade.Ticks......ugh! I hate pulling those things out! (on my dog)
 It sounds like I should put Big Meadows down for my next trip to Shenandoah. I always have a lot of fun chasing "bear sightings". Shenandoah......cool.
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Leaflin
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Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Location: Virginia Online Status: Offline Posts: 24 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 8:40pm |
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David, if you are looking for a site near the Appalachian Trail all of the outer E loop sites back onto it. This is the Appalachian Trail from site E180
 This is site E 185 with the R-Pod. The Appalachian Trail is right at the back where the site drops off.
 I took this in the middle of the campground early one morning.
 and this one near Crescent Rock Overlook, mile post 44.4
 Last time we were up there we came across a coyote but I was too scared to move let alone take a picture.
My Mum and Dad were caretakers for a section of the Appalachian Trail for many years.
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Brin
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Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Location: Manassas, Va Online Status: Offline Posts: 93 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 9:25pm |
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Gosh, Leaflin those pictures are making me homesick. I grew up in Rappahannock County and practically lived on the Drive and Old Rag when I was a teenager. I have pictures of bear too from the park but I think your picture is much better. I love the deer in the campground. The neighbor skunk was a new addition
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I hope you had your wheel chocks set or if the pod rolled backwards it would have gone off the mountain. Remind me to tell you the story sometime on the first time we tried to unhook up there and didn't put the chocks down first (newbies
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Terri and Craig and Panzer
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techntrek
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Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Posted: 26 Apr 2011 at 10:26pm |
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The trip I did before Old Rag my buddies and I woke up just before daybreak to a bear taking our bear bag down from the tree we hung it from. We eventually chased him off, but all we had left was one can of food, glad it was the last morning of our trip. I kept a plastic can he chewed up as a memento, I keep it with my backpacking equipment as a reminder... and I use a bear canister now.
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