White Oak Canyon

Yesterday my friend, Peter, and I took Chaos hiking at White Oak Canyon near Old Rag. We hiked straight up White Oak trail along the waterfalls and saw incredible views. From the trail head to the Upper Falls, it's a 2,650 elevation difference. Then we looped around and went down Cedar Run Trail. White Oak has 3 really beautiful waterfalls. Cedar Run has many smaller waterfalls, but you can actually go in them and climb up them. The whole loop is 8.2 miles.


Peter freaked us out by jumping over waterfalls, gaps, and in to pools of water.






Chaos swam in every pool of water he could find. He loved every minute of it. The water was a little cold, but it felt good after hiking straight up almost 3,000 feet.




The waterfalls are so beautiful and were a lot of fun to climb on. Peter absolutely loves nature and outdoors and sees God's creative hand holding all life. He's a Christian who is in love with our glorious God and desperately wants to live a life that is pleasing to Him. As we were eating lunch over a beautiful part of a waterfall, he looked around and said, "You know what blows me away the most? That all of this is sin-stained. Can you imagine what the nature in heaven is going to look like?" I had never thought of that before...that even the most beautiful views here are stained and tainted by sin. How much more beautiful will it look in God's perfect, eternal kingdom?








On the way down Cedar Run Trail, there's a natural water slide that's about 40 feet long. The rock is super smooth. It doesn't even feel like you're sliding down rock. The pool at the bottom is really deep - I couldn't even touch the bottom. The slide was so fast, so fun! We went down like 15 times.


It was such a perfect day. Chaos was completely exhausted afterwards. He slept so soundly last night. In fact he usually wakes up by 6 AM and wants to go outside. But this morning, he didn't wake up until 8:30! Hopefully we can go hiking again this week!