Today's my wife's birthday. She wanted a day of adventure and new trails.
Got up early, made it to Elk Knob State Park mid morning.
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Decided to go across the mountain the loooong way. Ended up in Virginia at Grayson Highlands State Park for a waterfall hike.
Hiked the Cabin Creek Trail and explored around the campground a bit.
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She's always dreamed of seeing the wild ponies there. We had time before sunset to hike up Rhododendron Trail to a bald. Sure enough, we saw 7 of them. She got better pics as I was busy with a misbehaving malamute who has a special high pitch sonar call when he sees a horse.
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Gotta say, pretty solid birthday for her and I had a blast too. Puppies passed out in the minivan all the way home.
