Category: West Virginia
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Taking Care of Business
Bob and Ginger arrived Saturday night in their 2004 Winnebago Brave, dollying a Honda Fit with two kayaks on top and two bikes hitched to their back ladder. Bob was retired 30 year Marine whose second career was a Gauley and New River raft guide and whose third chapter is (mostly) full time RVing. He…
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Mountaineer-ing at Battle Run
It was a 107 site sell-out at Battle Run Campground last night. Likely one of the last weekends for crews to party together before kids are back to school on Monday. Eric had the spy glasses out, coveting Chaparrals to Sea Rays. Raft ups, kids tubing, teenagers SUP’ing, 8 year olds kayaking alongside Moms and…
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Summersville Lake
Sadly, we are nearing the end of our Reboot Roadtrip. What began as a 33 day journey both starting and ending in Bradenton, shifted when 33 days became 50 and the round trip became one way, trading central Florida springs for Appalachia mountains, rivers, lakes and forests and a return to DC. The change of…
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Welcome to Wonderland
With a decent round at Adventures on the Gorge’s Raven’s Ridge and a busted round at Chestnut Creek Campground with Seth, before we headed south for 4 nights at Summerville Lake we went north for supplies and 18 holes at ACE Adventure Resort’s Wonderland course. The online description: The course spans 40 acres winding around…
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Nuttallburg in Four Bars
While George Vanderbilt was constructing his gilded Biltmore estate in Asheville, about 250 miles north of him British entrepreneur John Nuttall saw opportunity in the coal rich New River gorge and began buying land and building infrastructure just before the C&O Railway was completed there. His town, Nuttallburg, became the second of more than 50…
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Build It and They Will Come
We woke up to a steady downpour and raced home to Betty late in the afternoon in front of another punishing downpour. In between thunderstorms, we roamed north of the bridge looking for local fun and adventure. We began with the obvious; a return to the National Park’s visitor center. With the Nuttallburg family reunion…
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New River Dance
The primary purpose of heading north to West Virginia was to raft the Gauley River. Ever since we had taken a white water rafting trip to California, we lamented that West Virginia was in our backyard and we never got there. As the only world class whitewater on the East coast, it was a mere…
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Walk This Way
At 4:34 AM we were woken by a well-done thunderous applause from the rainman. Still going strong, the river should be flowing fast today if the weatherman’s prediction of sunshine by 7 comes true. Today we’re doing the Tuesday in August Lower River BOGO deal with New and River Gauley River Adventures. After the Canyon…
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Gorge-ous!
After slaying Asheville we looked at the return to Florida legs of our Reboot Roadtrip and decided springs and lakes were tame, what about white water? 260 miles north is New River Gorge, West Virginia. After rafting the Class IV wild and scenic Toulumne River near Yosemite 8 years ago on an OARS trip, we…