Nine Day Hiking and Campus Visit Trip: Part 3, The Channels, VA
It took me 2.5 hours to reach The Channels. People came up behind me and came back down in the time it took me to go up. I felt old and slow.
Nine Day Hiking and Campus Visit Trip: Part 2, Travel to Lebanon, VA
Early Friday morning, I reserved a hotel room for that night, selected purely on low price and proximity to The Channels trailhead. A secondary desire was to go somewhere I hadn’t been before, which is partly how I ended up reserving a room in Lebanon, VA.