You never know what's lurking in the shelters...

Journey, Pyrofly and I were sitting in the shelter enjoying an afternoon snack and break at BlackRock Hut (sleeping shelters in Shenandoah NP are called huts, and day-use picnic gazebo-esque structures are called shelters...just to confuse us) and a friendly creature decides to join us. While we weren't rude to the creature, we certainly weren't friendly, either. In fact, it was nearly instantly upon seeing the creature - a copperhead snake - that we jumped away from it and snapped a zillion photos from a distance while politely and patiently waiting for it to find another resting spot out in the woods.


The snake is finally leaving the shelter. Snakes are fascinating creatures - imagine the abs humans would have if we had to crawl around on out stomachs all day to get around. Truly fascinating to watch these things move...