 
| This is the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) Gravel Springs hut. Along the AT, thru hikers can use these huts as shelters saving them some trouble.
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| No this is not the right trail. Yes there are a bunch of ticks leaping on us.
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| At a trail junction
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| Mountain laurel blooms getting ready to open, looks like we just missed most of it this year.
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| But! There was at least a few plants in the sunny areas that had open blooms.
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| It never fails, just when you think there might not be a rock that catches her eye, inevitably one just appears around the bend.
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| This is as far as we were going today. The pine hanging onto the rock is actually alive, but it's hard to see the green here.
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| The rig work pretty well, though Elias goes into this stupor after about 30 minutes of hiking. It's like a narcotic. He was very tolerant until the very end, when I think he had just had enough.
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| We found a mossy rock to camp out for a while, do the usual hiking things, you know drink, eat, change diapers.
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| The gorge is heavily wooded, and doesn't afford much view of the run (stream). But if you look closely you might spot it (and if you go there, you can certainly hear it).
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| More mountain laurel
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| I took this photo for the white flower, which I'm not sure what they are. I didn't look closely when I was there, but a lot of the leaves in this photo do look a lot like posion ivy. There are lots of look alikes though. More research needed.
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