Bull Run Mountain was a nice day trip. We started off at the visitors center where they had a couple of bird feeders which automatically caught the eye of C. I thought we would never hit the trail lol. After a few minutes I was able to get her attention and we were out the door and heading towards the trail. It was a cold snowy day and the trail had maybe a inch or so of snow cover.
From there the trail rose uphill gradually for 2.2 miles. Along the way we passed a few other hikers and a couple of trail runners. I was little amazed there were actually others out here with the weather conditions. As we are still noob hikers we are learning that there are a lot of others that enjoy the raw conditions. 
Once we arrived at the top of Bull Run Mountain *as we huffed to catch our breath after the last bit of elevation gain kicked our unfit butts* we were treated to some very nice views. We spent a bit of time there taking pictures, eating a protein bar and just soaking up the amazing treat we earned.
We took a different trail down. Sorry I can not remember the name of the trails we took as I writing about it almost a month later. ON the way down we encountered a very rapid and steep elevation drop. *whew* Glad we didn't come up that way. Along this trail we came across a few neat things of nature. There was a mountain stream , some of it was frozen and some where not. We took a few pictures of some neat ice formations of of logs.
We really enjoyed this hike and the location is real close to where we live, so we will probably return several more times in the future.
