Cozy Crunchy Cabin Craziness !!!

OVERVIEW

YOU ALL!!! I am so excited for this trip you don’t even know. Want to spend 2 nights in a cozy cabin just 0.1 miles from the AT and right off the skyline drive with 9 of your newest friends? WITH A WOOD STOVE?!?! Stoke is high!!!!!!

The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club is a fantastic organization – they are a nonprofit who help to maintain a huge portion of the AT, as well as cabins and shelters along it. I’ve booked us 2 nights at the Range View Cabin in Shenandoah National Park- which comes equipped with a wood stove to keep us nice and toasty. This cabin is super rustic! So while we aren’t tent camping, be prepared to be pretty much outside.

The fantastic thing about this cabin is how close it is to the AT! By hiking just a mere 0.1 miles we can hit the ground running or hiking allllllll day on Saturday and then head back to our cozy cabin and cook a delicious meal on our little wood stove. Yay!

The Rundown:
Friday Nov. 19:
-Leave Cville around 4:00
-Drive the 1.5 hours to the parking lot
-Hike the ~1 mile hike to the cabin
-GRUB!

Saturday Nov. 20:
-Wake up in our cozy abode
-Off on adventures we go!
–> I’ll probably head out on a run that morning, so people can join on that or sleep in ! Then I was thinking we would hike Hogback overlook in the afternoon. See the All trails linked below:). These are also all just ideas, you can choose your own adventure to some extent.
-Back for din and the last night in the cabin

Sunday Nov 21:
Head back pretty early so we can all rest up!

Packing List:
-Backpack
-Sleeping bag
-Sleeping mat
-LAYERS LAYERS LAYERS. Gonna be chilly friends
-HATS! And gloves! And such
-Food- 2x Dinner, 2x Breakfast, Plenty of snacks and Lunch for Saturday!!!
-Bowl/utensils
-Hiking/running shoes
-Cabin shoes (like birks or chacos)
-Headlamp
-Water bottle (there is a spring to refill)
-Entertainment! (a book, a journal, an instrument)

Ill provide to share:
– Water filtration system
– Camp stoves
– Camp pots

*AYo need another driver, and PARKS PASS! If you have either of these things you’ll be first off that waitlist 🙂

** I know this is still really far out- I’ll be sending out more info + updates as we get closer to trip departure.

Cabin Link:
http://www.patc.net/PATC/Cabins/Individual_Cabins/Range_View.aspx

Hogback Overlook Hike Link:
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/virginia/appalachian-trail-hogback-overlook-to-jenkins-gap