Despite their fearsome reputation, timber rattlesnakes rarely sink their fangs into people, and especially not more than twice, as appears to have been the case with a man bitten while hiking just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, experts said Wednesday.

‘Hospitality in the Valley’ welcomes visitors into the area

The Appalachian Trail (AT), a 2,175-mile footpath, passes through 14 states between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine and passes Rockfish Gap above Waynesboro.