Big Bend

Last weekend we headed to Big Bend camp ground in the Monongahela National forest in West Virginia. This was our second trip down there in 3 weeks. It is a magical place with high mountains, dense forests and little civilization. The campground was home to lots of deer and various other small critters but no bears were spotted this time (although they are native to the area). The highlight of the trip(s) for me was the chance to swim in relative solitude in big slow moving rivers. As you can see from the photos above we spent the majority of the time mooching around doing this. Big Bend is so named because the campground literally sits in the middle of a U turn in the upper regions of the Potomac River that flows East from the mountains through Washington DC.