Buzzard Rock: Visiting an Old Friend

The Buzzard Rock hike from Elizabeth Furnace in the Massanutten area of Virginia is an old favorite. I didn't realize how long it had been since we'd been there until I got home and looked for a photo folder on my computer. We haven't done this hike since I got this computer...in 2011. In any case, it is a great hike: a nice steady climb up to the top of the ridge and then a lovely descent, mostly along a knife edge ridge down to the rocks. It is about 9 miles round trip. We had good weather and not much wind today, which is something to be grateful for in winter.

 A bridge across a small side stream to Passage Creek, the main waterway running down Fort Valley.

 Looking upstream from the bridge

 Moss lined trail

 An interesting moss

 A very cool fungus

 The junction of the Tuscarora/Massanutten trails and the Buzzard Rock Trail.

 Frost flowers on the Buzard Rock Trail

 Looking southwest down Fort Valley from an overlook

 The Buzzard Rock Trail

A bootshot from Buzzard Rock

Same view without my feet!