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Potomac Chapter Spring Tour - May 2009
To Blackwater Falls and Canaan Valley, West Virginia



Paul & Karen Johnson - 64 Convertible / Bob & Donna Johnstone - 64 GT Hawk / Bob & Anne Devore - 64 Cruiser
Dave & Susan Eppig - 64 Sedan / Larry & Pat Merhaut - 62 Lark Convertible / Paul & Dorothy Thrush - 54 Pickup
Bob & Diana Wagner - 63 GT Hawk / Steve & Mary Walter - 56 Power Hawk / Dave & Susan Witmer - 60 Hawk

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..A cool, rainy, drive north toward Hagerstown

...to meet the group, early..
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...more...
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...up Routes 70/68 to...
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....Seidling Hill Visitors Center...
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...then towards West Virginia..
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....windmills in West Virginia....( More)...


To....


....Blackwater River Valley..South

....East....

....North....
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...at the Falls parking lot
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....two hundred and ..how many steps...
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...a group of the finest....
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...a drive to another view..
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...from the top...
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...that evening at the Lodge..
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..Darrell Carr entertained the club! ( He's good!)
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Next AM, Paul marshalls everyone outside Blackwater Lodge..


..and we stop at the ..

...Nature Center ..

..then to the Canaan Valley Resort

...Lunch at the Lodge

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...Photo Op behind ...
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.. Group Shot at an Overlook
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Paul has ... another.... "near Miss"
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..They're all over the place...
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...through the meadows..
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..Then we start DOWN the mountain(s)...
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Note the angle of the trees vs the road...
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10% grade and Turner brakes never felt
or "smelled" so good..
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see that curve up ahead...
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....slingshot....
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...again to the left...
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...down more...
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...yeehah!..
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...finally levelling out....
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...we stop at the Smoke Hole Caverns, for a pit stop...
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...then on to Winchester, VA and home... Great Trip!