October 30, 2017 Burnsville, WV to New Market, Virginia

It snowed last night higher up. Today we drove 100 miles over many, many mountain passes in West Virginia into Virginia. It took 5 hours. Very steep, wet roads, lots of curves. Very beautiful with the fall colors.

Fall colors before the snow. A view of Spruce Knob the highest peak in West Virginia at 4, 861 feet. 

Yes there are ski areas, these mountains are very steep so I bet they are pretty good. In Elkins are a couple of historic scenic trains. They are not running this late in the year. A statue of Minnehaha the wife of Hiawatha in Longfellow's poem. Don't know where these signs are for but we don't want to go there, too much snow! The fall colors, the bluebird sky and snow were spectacular. 

There was lots of snow. We were glad we did not try to drive over last night or early this morning. The roads were mainly dry, some were wet, probably frozen tonight.

Lots and lots of snow. It is supposed to snow again on Weds night and we still have the Appalachians to go over. 

We drove over the Allegheny and the Shenandoah mountain ranges to day. Basin and range topography which means we drove up and down many, many steep mountains today. the Allegheny's are the eastern continental divide. Water on the west side goes to the Mississippi river and on the east side to the Atlantic ocean. We made it to Virginia, which is for lovers. Although it looks like someone shot up the heart. Seneca rocks are one of the most photographed sights in West Virginia. 

Cool looking clouds overhead in one of the valley's. This is the map of West Virginia. Today we drove over all that green stuff heading east. It is mostly forest and millions of peaks and valleys.