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Haven't been around the forums much for a few months, so thought I would come back and share a few pics of my morning hike. This is on the Mountains to Sea Trail in Western North Carolina. When finished, the trail will stretch 1,000 miles from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockeys Ridge on the Outer Banks. It's about halfway done I think.
I'm lucky enough to have this section out my back door, and it's a great place to get away for a quick hike or run. Nothing really spectacular about this section, just your typical mid elevation (2800' or so) southern Appalachian mixed hardwood forest with your intermittent rhododendron thicket thrown in for good measure.
Temp at the beginning of the hike this morning:
Logging Road up to the MST:
You know its cold when the rhododendron roll up like this. Always seems to happen in the low 30's or high 20's:
Here was an interesting pic. This pine fell down in the 'V' of the smaller tree, and split it right down the middle.
The trail is real laid back through here, it just meanders generally northeast along a few contours with the occasional drop down into a creek bed:
The real action is both north and south of here, where the trail climbs to Mt. Pisgah in the south and Mt. Mitchell just northeast of here. Mt. Mitchell is the highest peak in the east at around 6700'. Next summer I'm going to walk out my back door and not stop till I get to that high point.
So just a few pics of a quiet, cold saturday morning hike. Here's the obligatory knife content, my Gossman PSK. When I go into the woods, this little guy goes with me.
I'm lucky enough to have this section out my back door, and it's a great place to get away for a quick hike or run. Nothing really spectacular about this section, just your typical mid elevation (2800' or so) southern Appalachian mixed hardwood forest with your intermittent rhododendron thicket thrown in for good measure.
Temp at the beginning of the hike this morning:
Logging Road up to the MST:
You know its cold when the rhododendron roll up like this. Always seems to happen in the low 30's or high 20's:
Here was an interesting pic. This pine fell down in the 'V' of the smaller tree, and split it right down the middle.
The trail is real laid back through here, it just meanders generally northeast along a few contours with the occasional drop down into a creek bed:
The real action is both north and south of here, where the trail climbs to Mt. Pisgah in the south and Mt. Mitchell just northeast of here. Mt. Mitchell is the highest peak in the east at around 6700'. Next summer I'm going to walk out my back door and not stop till I get to that high point.
So just a few pics of a quiet, cold saturday morning hike. Here's the obligatory knife content, my Gossman PSK. When I go into the woods, this little guy goes with me.
