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David Sibray hikes past bloodroot flowers

West Virginia Explorer editor David Sibray examines a bloodroot flower in the New River Gorge in West Virginia.

Bloodroot flowers blossom along the Big Branch trail in the New River Gorge near Hinton, West Virginia.

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