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Virginia Chapter Outings

Local Group Outings Programs

• Metropolitan Washington Regional Outings Program (Mount Vernon and Great Falls Groups)

• Chesapeake Bay Group Outings

• Falls of the James Group Events

• New River Group Calendar

• Piedmont Group Outings

• Rappahannock Group Meetings and Outings

• Roanoke Group Calendar

National Sierra Club Outings

• See http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/national/ for your choice of Family, Backpack, Service, Lodge, Raft, Sail, Snow, Bike, Canoe, Kayak, Base Camp, Highlight, Activist, and Seniors outings. Select from trips in the lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and international locations.

Virginia Chapter Outings

September 2008

Sat, Sep 6
Tour de Cut, North Mountain Trail
We’ll hike a superb ridgetop trail surrounded by spectacular views of the northern Shenandoah Valley. Enjoy high grassy ridges, rock formations of a variety of colors and sizes, and wooded groves atop North Mountain. The trail overlooks the site of the future Laurel Run/Road timber sale 1000 ft. below, where the Forest Service plans to cut 484 acres of the forest in 22 separate even-aged cutting units. In addition, a 15 mile long industrial wind turbine development is proposed on the very ridge where we will hike, and other remote areas just to the south of us.

October 2008

Sat, Oct 4
Tour de Cut, Chestnut Oak Knob
We will begin with a pleasant 2 ¾ mile ascent of the Dowells Draft Trail, a wooded trail surrounded by the peaks of distant Ramseys Draft Wilderness and Crawford Mountain. We will then hike cross-country a short distance to visit several recent clearcuts surrounding nearby 2798 ft. high Chestnut Oak Knob. After this, we will follow a road to the bottom of the mountain, passing several tributaries of Dowells Draft.