[bjones6416]

Early Saturday morning coffee in my cup while I bake scones to take to a friend's house.

Originally Posted by VydorScope

Yesterday my wife and I climbed to the top of the world! Err... well the highest point in Virginia at least

Here is a pic (linking cause mods get mad when I break the rules an post big pictures ) :

http://vydorscope.deviantart.com/art/Flat-Top-473966221

And here is one of what the trail looked like

http://vydorscope.deviantart.com/art...rail-473976628

and a friend we met on the trial

http://vydorscope.deviantart.com/art...oods-473974624


And I had Crystal Light in my camel pack - which is like a cup just you carry it on your back instead of in your hand. Was an 8.8 mile hike. A few suicide bomber butterflies tried to take me out, but my martial arts training got me through it relatively fine.

Oh, that view! I hike 3 or 4 times a week at my local state park, usually a three mile loop. In the last two weeks, though, there have been two seemingly random attacks on lone women on trails in the metro area. One was on a popular cycling/walking trail, when a runner was pulled into the woods and severely beaten. Then a week later in another state park close to here a woman was tazed as she rode her bike along a narrow trail. The wires hit her helmet and she was able to escape.

I let it keep me down for a couple of days, but then I decided I wasn't going to let fear of the boogeyman decide my life choices. They believe the attacks are unrelated, so I don't think I'm in a whole lot more danger than I was before. I texted my route to a family member, grabbed my water bottle and emergency whistle, and went. There were actually rangers brought in to patrol the trails and they checked on me at one point on my walk. I felt good about it. Here's some pics I took - usually there are deer but I got a late start and it was HOT.