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Merry Christmas, from White Crow Adventure Tours

12/21/2014

With the final weekend before Christmas upon us, I want to thank all that have engaged, interacted and explored with me as I've moved, sometimes slowly, towards making White Crow Adventure Tours a reality. It all started in my kitchen 9 months ago, as I started imagining what my logo would/could look like. A wild flood of imagery, experiences, impressions and hope ran through me, and the three birds of my logo, flying over Old Rag Mountain, were born.

This first season started off slow, and each week was a rollercoaster, but when August came around tours were being booked, folks were discovering what White Crow Tours was all about, and the fortitude to keep the dream alive had been fortified.

New tours will start in April 0f 2015, and will include options to visit Washington, D.C. as part of your tour. For those of you that do not know, I am now a licensed Washington, D.C. tour guide and have recently be accepted into The Guild of Professional Tour Guides of Washington, DC. The guild has been a great resource so far, and I encourage those of you visiting D.C. to use them, but of course, use White Crow Tours as your preferred guide :-)

Merry Christmas to all of you and your families, or if you do not celebrate Christmas, Happy Holidays to you and your family. I would like to share with you this song of Christmas, my favorite song of Christmas, and quite possibly the most magnificent song of Christmas. Enjoy...

10 facts about Shenandoah National Park

11/20/2014

1. The park was authorized by President Calvin Coolidge and Congress on May 22, 1926, established on December 26, 1935, and on July 3, 1936 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated its’ opening to the public

2. In 1929 President Herbert Hoover established his summer retreat in what is now Rapidan Camp. The camp consisted of 13 rustic cabins located where two streams merge to form the Rapidan River

3. The size of the park is 197,438 acres, with 79,579 acres of protected wilderness, and spans across 7 Virginian counties

4. There are 236 miles of roads, including the 105.5 mile historic Skyline Drive which runs along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from Front Royal, VA to Rockfish Gap near Afton, VA

5. There are 516 miles of hiking trails in the park, including 101 miles of the famed Appalachian Trail which runs from Katahdin, Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia

6. The park is home to over 200 species of resident and transient birds including Wild Turkey and Peregrine Falcons, and 53 species of mammals including White-Tailed Deer, Black Bear and Bobcats

7. The park has over 60 peaks with elevations over 3,000 ft including the highest peak at Hawksbill Mountain (4,051 ft.) The lowest level of elevation is at the North Entrance (561 ft.)

8. The park is comprised primarily of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian Mountain Range, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world formed over 300 to 500 million years ago

9. The three primary bedrock types are Granitic, Siliciclastic, and Basaltic

10. The Blue Ridge Mountains got their name from the bluish color they display when seen from a distance

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10 facts about Shenandoah National Park

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