The day after Christmas, coming back from seeing my sister, my daughter and I "climbed" Mount Davis. This is my home state but it wasn't very exciting. The area around has the Allegheny Passage rail trail, some Amish farms, and that's about it. There was basically no snow across the entire state, but around 3,000', right before the summit, there was a nice little mix of crusty and new snow. It's a pretty cool tower at the top, which helps because you would never know you were on a high point otherwise. The trail along the ridge was almost perfectly flat.
Baumann_pat will be glad to know there was an even easier way to go, a drive getting you less than a quarter mile from the top. Looking at a map I think there is a way to come up from the river, about 2,000' vertical, on public land, but with my knee we didn't even consider it.
So Cypress and I have done 12 together, and I have done maybe four or five more. Our plan is to do Mt. Rogers this spring before she graduates from UVA. Until my knee is better steeps will really slow me down and rock hopping is almost impossible. Anybody know what the trail is like?