{"id":2092,"date":"2021-07-05T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T19:53:30","slug":"june-2021-shenandoah-gypsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"June 2021: Shenandoah Gypsies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of our favorite kinds of trips is one where we do an RV meetup with family, and if meeting up with family is great, meeting up with family at a national park is even greater. This time it was linking up with Cliff, Ansley, and Margot in Shenandoah National Park<\/a>. And Shenandoah was a special treat for both families. I had always thought of Shenandoah as mostly a road: a ridgetop highway (Skyline Drive), with the national park being a small ribbon of forest sloping down on either side. Actually, no. The park is over 200,000 acres in size, which means the border on either side of the roadway is MILES wide. And there are over 500 miles of hiking trails, 90 perennial streams, and dozens of waterfalls. So, because we arrived a day ahead of Cliff and the girls, we did our usual thing: went to the visitor center, explained the constituency of our family group, and asked for the best way to spend a few days. Armed with the list the rangers provided, we spent a long weekend of hiking, listening to ranger talks, and hanging around the Big Meadows campground, which involved a considerable amount of dodging wandering cervidae<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Cliff pointed out, these deer apparently don’t see a lot of hunting pressure. Ha ha. I told one of the rangers that I’d be happy to bring my bow on the next trip and solve the Park’s “deer problem,” but he didn’t seem very interested.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n