Good Old Rag

She's a good old mountain, Old Rag. At just over 3,200 ft, Old Rag is the highest elevation within a 2 hour drive of D.C. and well worth the trip. With spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and open fields below, the hike was great training for my upcoming backpacking trip to Utah.

Sol Sistah Elana is finding her land legs now that her days of collegiate open water swimming are over. She used her endurance power and athletic focus to overcome her asthmatic lungs and we made record time on Saturday - until we ran into a line of hikers waiting to pass through the rocky narrows. Elana and I both focused on our lats to make sure our wobbly shoulders stayed in the sockets as we shimmied our way up and out of the boulders and to the top of a gorgeous summer day.