Jones Run/Doyles River

I had done hike on Jones Run/Doyles River on 25th July 2015 . It is located in Virginia State near Shenandoah National Park on Skyline Drive.
Hike Location
Name: Jones Run/Doyles River
Distance: 104 miles from Richmond(approx)
Total hiking distance: 6.6 miles(approx).
Altitude: 2800 ft.
Hike Team: Gnaneshwar, Rajtilak, Shubhendu, Sujay, Vaibhav and me.
Hiking Experience: We (Gnaneshwar, Vaibhav and me) started from our place around 6:15 am. Reached Sujay's place, picked him and started for our destination around 6:35 am. Rajtilak picked Shubhendu and started for destination in another car. We stopped at Starbucks for morning coffee around 7:40 am. Had coffee and left for destination around 8:03 am. We reached Browns Gap Parking spot, from where we need to start our hike, around 8:47 am. We waited for other two at the parking spot. There was no other car at the parking apart from ours. We had breakfast. In sometime the other two arrived and we started our hike around 9:43 am. We did a thorough analysis to decide from which side to start the hike using the maps we had taken before the start of the hike. We started our hike on Appalachian Trail(A.T.) North, white blazed.The trail was on other side of Skyline Drive from parking. Climate was very hot and no breeze.

We started hiking. The trail was narrow and covered by huge trees on both sides providing shade and have not felt the sun heat initially. It was downhill. we were a very enthusiastic team and kept on going down the hill with great excitement. The trail lead us to the middle of the jungle and it was passing along the side of the river stream. There was not much water in the stream and there were no signs of rainfall on the previous day. We kept on climbing down the hill and there were many small waterfalls along the way. There was little sunshine through the gap of trees, no breeze and climate is very hot and could feel the heat as we hiked further. There were stones, roots of huge trees along the path. We soon reached an intersection where we took left onto Jones river trail, blue blazed. The trail was narrow and lead us much deeper in the jungle. As we hikes further we saw large waterfalls on the other side of the trail. They were the largest waterfalls in the Shenandoah region. But with less water they did not seem attractive. The steep of the trail increased gradually.

At the first waterfall where we crossed the stream, the uphill started. The trail was very steep and  and filled with big stones. Soon we reached other set of waterfalls. The steep increased abruptly from the waterfalls until we reached the top of the waterfalls. Once we reached the last view of waterfalls the slope was gradual and continued our hike. We crossed two footbridges along the way and soon reached an intersection where we took left onto Yellow blazed fire road trail. The trail was very wide and seems like a pathway to the waterfalls for vehicles. We walked on the trail for an hour with little shade by the trees  alongside of the trail. On the way we met many people who were coming to visit the waterfalls. We reached our parking spot around 12:25 pm and it was full of cars. We had our lunch in the shade of trees near to parking area and left for home around 1:15 pm. Reached home around 3:00 pm. It was very nice memorable hike and had great company. All is Well.