Steep Distant Backbone of North Fork Mountain

This picture represents for me love at first sight as this is when I noticed the craggy topped mountain that rises above the North Fork (of the Potomac) River as I peered east from West Virginia's highest point, Spruce Knob. It would take me a year before I would finally get to hike to the top where I discovered one of the most prolific cliff top mountains I've run across in the east. Picture was taken on a beautiful October 5, 2008 visit to the high country of West Virginia. North Fork Mountain is actually over fifteen hundred feet shorter than Spruce Mountain I was standing on that day. In the valley below you see several repeating pockets of hills -- several of these feature a crag formation but the most famous of these (outside of the picture) are the Seneca Rocks formation.