Chillin at Summit Lake, WV

Miles Tuesday: 138

Just woke up while camping at Summit Lake in WV. I'll have to catch you up on my ADV class last weekend and associated shenanigans later. 

Yesterday Jaron & rolled out from Penmerryl Farm B&B after breakfast & packing, like maybe 10:30, with a pretty unambitious day planned. We went along twisty 39 to the Huntersville Arch aka Devil's Backbone, a rock formation, and then to get lunch at Dirtbean in Marlinton, WV. We actually missed Devil's Backbone on the first pass and turned on a state park road and turned around in a campground with a gravel loop where Julie put her new skills to use. 



Updated with Jaron's good pics:




After lunch we got to Summit Lake campground by 4:00 and took our time picking out a campsite. This is my kind of campground. Really quiet with only a few people here on a Tuesday. Jaron noted that the kids here were allowed to play by themselves on bikes and catching creatures in the lake with only distant supervision. 

By 6:00 we had camp set up and went to see the lake for a bit, then came back and made dinner. Julie heard about Pack-It Gourmet trail meals in a motorcycle camping FB group so we're trying that out. They make "cool prep" meals also which came in handy for lunch the day we spent at Penmerryl Farm. The directions vary wildly, tho, with one requiring 90 minutes...so we'll have to watch out for that next time we order from them. 

There was not firewood for sale here so we just had a quiet evening looking at the trees and listening to the birds. Julie got a little reading time in and we went to bed at a reasonable hour. Overnight low of 48, so, not too cold for Julie's summer sleeping bag. 






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