Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship (BRCES), VA

Photos by Michael Juskelis and Ken Clark, 2008/12/06.

Waiting inside the center for the trails to open. Their cat's name is Toast.

Wortman Pond at the beginning of the hike.

One of several old farm houses in the management area.

Our first stream crossing, Piney Run, on the Old Bridge Trail.

Looking downstream from the crossing, note the old bridge abutment on the bank.

The ruins of another home. The chimney may not last much longer.

Views from the open meadows of the Sweet Run Loop.

Lunch at Gordon Pond.

Take your pick for this Sweet Run crossing: bridge or rock hop.

Eagle Scouts constructed this bridge over Piney Run. You can see a picture from last summer, where
it was almost lost to a storm before completion.

Another old farm house as we reached the return leg of the Farmstead Loop.

A very old oak tree on the Farmstead Loop.

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