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Pics for April 29th to May 1st North America » United States » Virginia » Shanendoah National Park » Calf Mountain By OD and CCs Long WalkMay 10th 2007The trees are turning green and the weather is warming up. Just to think, a couple of weeks ago we were wearing every bit of clothes we had!... read more

Hey all, sorry for taking so long at gettin these on here but has been a little hectic at my end. Have moved out into a house just near where i was living before at the hostel so been busy tryin to get that organised plus workin 4 days a week and then Ken (AFS boss) has just piled a whole lot of work on me so yeah, just a little crazy at the moment. Its currently 4am & i dont quite know why i am still up considering i worked all day yesterday however i do have the day off today so will enjoy the sleep in... what i get of it anyways. Lots to do. Not much has been happening. The job is going well. Myboss is a little crazy with her personal ... read more

Moab itself is a cool little town; one of those that doesn't allow walmart or mcdonalds to move in. It's also filled with offroading jeeps, mountain bikers, and students from a University of Utah branch. Arches is about 2 miles from town, so we camped in Moab and drove up to Arches every day. We hiked in the park for 2 1/2 days, a total of 14.5 miles. The weather was beautiful, but hot! It was about 97 degrees midday. whew! And now, your geology lesson. Feel free to scan down to other paragraphs if you're not interested in how these amazing arches came to be, and what qualifies as an arch. First, the park lies atop a giant underground salt bed that was created 300 million years ago by a sea that flowed into ... read more

Now, for those of you that don't know.......and I didn't......Yosemite is a national park, based around an impressive glacial valley, and home to the world's 5th largest waterfall. The bus ride was relatively uneventful....ooohh except for some WEIRD coincidences. There were 4 of us on the trip and the 2 strangers were british guys. I got chatting to them and quickly discovered that they were from near Bristol (something Jen often said) Living in Wotton Under Edge Bristol is the safest bet for people actually recognising it! Further chat revealed that they too were from Wotton, and even more scarily from Charfield (Jen's little village!) And that they knew of her! That exclaimed over, chat continued.....only to discover there was more spookiness at work! One of the guys was just chatting generally and dropped in ... read more

so we went trapsing through Voorheesville, NY today at Thacher Park. we hiked the indian ladder trail, and took a few detours to get ourselves into a few precarious positions! we found a few trails that took us up to about halfway up one of the falls, n then we hiked back along the higher path and ended up having to free climb our way down about 30 feet or so, but we made it safe and sound... we stood underneath another one of the falls and found a cave about 40 feet up or so. i climbed up to check it out but jimmy decided he didn't feel like dying today so i climbed back down. at the end of the trail we decided to live on the edge and go off the beaten ... read more