Guest post by Jodi Meadows

Hightop Mountain, the Conquest Of

Every time my friend Laurel visits, we head up to the Shenandoah National Park. She and her husband do a lot of hiking in their home state and have all sorts of cool hiking gear: boots, backpacks, GPS… And the Shenandoah has trails galore, waterfalls, and is utterly beautiful all times of the year. There’s no way to resist it.

So the last time they visited, we tried the Appalachian Trail. Not the whole thing, obviously! But there’s a part near the park entrance th