Old Rag

Today, I headed down to central VA and did a training hike on Old Rag. I've never been there, so I had to get directions on line. I ended up using GPS and heading for Nethers, VA., a tiny little town.

After paying my $8 parking, I headed out for the trailhead. There were dozens of folks out today, including a Boy Scout troop. Starting out, I made pretty good time. As I approached the rock scramble area, I took a short break to take some pictures. In that little bit of time, the scouts ended up in the bottleneck areas of the scramble. So we waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Finally, I decided to find a way around the bottleneck and continue on up to the summit.

The weather was fantastic, and aside from the crowds, the hike was great. Start to finish, the hike took me 3 hours, 50 minutes, with about 40 minutes of stopped time.