Front Royal, VA - Nobo 965

This post is from October 20, 2014.   The GPS tracking of this hike can be found at:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/622968182

This is the day I started the AT at Hogback Outlook on Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park.

  

Today I made 16.6 miles, 7 hours out at trailhead.

 Now in hotel in nearby town (Front Royal) 

These are my first steps on the AT:

  This is a late Fall view in Shenandoah National Park:

This is what the AT looks like in SNP in the late Fall (a lot of leaves obscuring the trail! sometimes the cut logs were all that distinguished the trail):