{"id":5704,"date":"2020-12-13T00:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T04:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2020-12-13T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T04:29:11","slug":"blackrock-summit-december-12-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-rageous.net\/artrageousblog\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"Blackrock Summit – December 12, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning Wayne said he’d like to go to Blackrock Summit on the Skyline Drive. It seemed pretty ambitious to me given that he had major lung surgery in early November, but spending a day on the mountain seemed like a good way to spend a surprisingly warm December day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short while later when checking my Facebook “memories,” I was very surprised to see that we’d visited Blackrock Summit on December 12, 2015. Quite the “coincidence”!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early in the afternoon we drove up to the mountain and turned north onto the Skyline Drive, enjoying the views and stopping at random overlooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moorman River Overlook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar Hollow Dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We noticed a lot of cars on the Skyline Drive, so we weren’t too surprised to find that the parking lot at Blackrock Summit was full. We parked along the road and walked back towards the trail. Then, after some quick pictures, we started up the mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n