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Humpback Rock

Distance
1.2 mi
Vertical
741 ft
Summit
3,159 ft
Difficulty
Easy

Humpback Rocks is a greenstone outcropping near the summit of Humpback Mountain, a 3,080-foot peak in the Blue Ridge of Augusta and Nelson Counties, Virginia. The name comes from the way the bare rocks bulge from the otherwise vegetated western face, creating a distinctive hump…

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About Humpback Rock

Humpback Rocks is a massive greenstone outcropping near the peak of Humpback Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Augusta County and Nelson County, Virginia, United States, with a summit elevation of 3,080 feet (940 m). The rock formation is so named for the visual effect of a "hump" it creates on the western face of the mountain.

Summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

The summit greenstone outcrop with the Shenandoah Valley fading west — a billion-year-old granite base capped by basaltic lava and pushed up over limestone in the Alleghenian Orogeny.
Ben Schumin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cumulus building over the Valley, the layered ridges of the Blue Ridge running south toward George Washington National Forest.
Ben Schumin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mountain laurel blooming in May from a crack in the greenstone — a billion-year-old metabasalt now hosting the southern Appalachian flora.
Ben Schumin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Midday panorama from the high section of Humpback Rocks looking northwest into the Shenandoah Valley and the southern reach of Shenandoah National Park.
Zyzzybalubah · CC BY 4.0

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