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Trailblazing at Ship Rock

Gary Morefield at Ship Rock, Beckley, West Virginia, Raleigh County, New River Gorge Region

Gary Morefield takes a break from trail-blazing on the Ship Rock Trail, nearly completed at Beckley, West Virginia, in Raleigh County, in the New River Gorge Region.

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