If you stand on the top of the highest boulder on Old Rag mountain there is a pothole. When its not windy and the pothole isn't full of water you can stand up on its perfectly flat bottom and see 360 degrees. You can look around and feel like a million bucks, and if its a night like last Friday you could feel even better than that. As we stood on top of the world a full moon rose to the East. Simultaneously to the West a full sun was setting and the feeling was spectacular. After the sun fell behind Hawksbill mt. we watched the moon continue to rise and a perceptibly circular Earth shadow was cast on Falquier, Rappahannock, and Madison Counties. I wish you could have seen it.
There are some pretty cool things to see in this park and if you are too lazy to hire a guide so we can show you them in person well then I guess here's a couple of pics. I hope these will entice you to stop farting around on your computer either hire us, or go find this stuff on your own. The below are a couple pics of columnar jointed basalt found in SNP. Sometimes we climb on the stuff, sometimes we just step back and look at it because it's so darn cool.
