Saturday September 5th dawned sunny and warm. My neighbors don't hike much but wanted to go up and see the ponies and maybe pick a few Blueberries. So we headed out after my Saturday morning bike ride for day hike. Jeff, Lori, Redd, Ian, my daughter Hannah and me (Also the lab mix Sierra) all left about 10 AM and arrived at Grayson Highlands about 12:30. As we arrived at the backpacker lot, I noticed 2 things: one, it was getting cloudy and 2, there were a lot of folks there. I figured there would be a few folks since it was labor day but I didn't expect there to be as many cars in the lot as there were. It was almost full. We all hiked up the trail and less than 500 yards later we were looking at 2 ponies. We stopped and watched them and took a few pics. About 3/4 way up the spur trail we started picking blueberries. For the first 2 hours, that's really all we did. Between the 6 people, we probably picked 2 gallons of the sweet berries. We kept going all the way to Wilburn Ridge. We thought we might keep going to Rhododendron Gap but Sierra was beat and lay down on a rock to sleep. The clouds stayed over us all day but no rain. The temperature was almost perfect at 60 degrees and low humidity. We ran into a few folks along the way but it wasn't as many as I expected since the lot was so full. We did notice many folks already starting to set up tents in places we didn't normally see them.
On the way back down, we picked some more blueberries (as if we didnt have enough). It was a beautiful day in the Mountains (they all are), and we got to see a lot of ponies. Even got to see some deer too.
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