[at-l] Welcome

[dajones at isp.com (David A Jones)]

Leslie Booher wrote:

> Welcome to the list.  Red usually keeps the smashmallows, but OB may 
> have them right now.  Pull up a log and enter the conversation.  <G>  
> Where are you from?  I'm in what's known as Southside VA, the area 
> south of Richmond to the NC border, Halifax, to be specific.  If we 
> weren't the county seat, we'd have blown away by now.  We've been here 
> a bit over 4 years. 
>  
> anklebear

Thanks, anklebear.  I live in Fairfax County, VA, the DC 'burbs.  The 
work is plentiful here (I'm a computer programmer) and the recreation is 
not bad either.  I feel particularly lucky to live within walking 
distance of a lake with a 4 mile trail around it.  I've spent a lot of 
time there, and explored most of the trails in the county. 

I joined the Potomac AT Club last week.  I'm proud of my fellow citizens 
for volunteering to maintain 1000 miles of trail in these parts.  I got 
maps covering the 250 mile Tuscarora Trail from them.  There's some big 
hikes in there: from a 71 mile Massanutten loop to a 500 mile 
Tuscallachia loop.  I have found Charles Davidson's Tuscarora Photo 
Album <http://gallery.backcountry.net/TuscaroraTrail> on this site, and 
picked through the correspondence in the archives related to Tuscarora.  
So that's my plan: start hiking close to home, and maybe work up to a 
thru hike someday.