So after years of being a dc ski member, I am posting my first trip report.
Tim and I drove down to Shenendoah National Park for a nice day hike. It rained a little bit in the morning on the drive down so some places on the rocks were a bit slick, but it cleared up and ended up being a great day. We ran into a few people talking about a small brown bear sighting. We did not see th bear, but we did see what we thing was fresh "evidence" of the bear recently being on the trail. My camera lost battery power halfway through he hike, but here are the pictures I managed to take.
Eager hiker(s) ready to go!:
beginning of the trail:
some pics of the lower falls:
Pic of me at the upper falls:
We live a mile down Hoover Road from rt 29 and on those days we have a difficult time getting out of our driveway, especially in the late PM when the crowd heads back to the confines of Northern VA. The locals in downtown Reva refer to the fall visitors to Graves and elsewhere along the Natl Park as "leafers." 
I have to agree though, White Oak canyon is one of my favorite hikes, especially in November/December before the snow flys. Be careful of the slipperyness of the falls. Every year somebody takes a sometimes fatal fall there. 
