Yes, summer is here, and with summer comes all of those thoughts of vacationing and getting away from it all. Of course, all this mental energy expended begins to cause amazing fatigue in the heat, so it may be simpler just to stay at home in the AC, relax, and save a couple of bucks. Oh yes, summer is a great time of year. Simpler is not what summer is about though.
Summer is about fun, adventure, and really wild things.
This past weekend I headed over to the western part of VA just below the town of Warm Springs into the George Washington Forest to Lake Moomaw. I too felt the call of summer to get away from it all with a couple of friends, try out an inflatable raft that another friend of mine thought I should have, and also experiment with an old army hammock that I have been unsuccessful in using for the past 7 or 8 years. It is not that I was inept when it came to rigging the hammock up, although it was more involved than what I had remembered when I laid it out at the camp site. The problem has been that everytime I plan on using it either the date falls through or there aren't enough trees. As it turns out this particular hammock requires 6 trees of substantial girth and root to be remotely functional.