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Since goat birthing season starts next month and ties us down for a couple months we wanted to make an early journey to the woods.
Been waiting for a good weekend all month without sucess.
Finally the forcast was for sunny and around 50 on Sat low about 27 Sat night and then sleet and snow on Sunday.
Thought we'd make for the Monongahela National Forest and try out the Tea Creek Trail since it had a shelter we could use about 2.7miles in. The original plan was to hike to the shelter on Sat and then do an 8 mile loop using Right Fork and Tea Creek Mt Trails back to our car, but with the weather predicted we opted to just walk in and walk out.
As we hit Richwood WV the signs told us we were in the right area.
As we headed out of Richwood, we passed the turnoffs for Summit Lake, and the Falls of Hills Creek.
We decided to stop at Cranberry Glades just to see if anything was out yet. I took a pic of the sign rather than tell you what it is:
Here's the big bog
This is the one of the few unique plants I could find there this time of year. The insect eating pitcher plant
Open for business
Moving from the boggy to the glady
In the glady part the Skunk Cabbage was just coming up. This is one of the few areas on WV that has this plant.
We finished out the boardwalk and then hopped into the car and headed out the Highland Scenic Highway to the Tea Creek Campground, where the mystical Williams River with it's three forks, the Cranberry Wilderness, and the Tea Creek Back Country are.
This is starting up the Tea Creek Trail looking back down Tea Creek to where it joins the Williams River.
Like most of WV's other wilderness and back country this was logged in the early 20th century, with the logs hauled out on narrow gauge railroad trains. A lot of the trails follow the tracks. You can still see the crossties here:
Been waiting for a good weekend all month without sucess.
Finally the forcast was for sunny and around 50 on Sat low about 27 Sat night and then sleet and snow on Sunday.
Thought we'd make for the Monongahela National Forest and try out the Tea Creek Trail since it had a shelter we could use about 2.7miles in. The original plan was to hike to the shelter on Sat and then do an 8 mile loop using Right Fork and Tea Creek Mt Trails back to our car, but with the weather predicted we opted to just walk in and walk out.
As we hit Richwood WV the signs told us we were in the right area.
As we headed out of Richwood, we passed the turnoffs for Summit Lake, and the Falls of Hills Creek.
We decided to stop at Cranberry Glades just to see if anything was out yet. I took a pic of the sign rather than tell you what it is:
Here's the big bog
This is the one of the few unique plants I could find there this time of year. The insect eating pitcher plant
Open for business
Moving from the boggy to the glady
In the glady part the Skunk Cabbage was just coming up. This is one of the few areas on WV that has this plant.
We finished out the boardwalk and then hopped into the car and headed out the Highland Scenic Highway to the Tea Creek Campground, where the mystical Williams River with it's three forks, the Cranberry Wilderness, and the Tea Creek Back Country are.
This is starting up the Tea Creek Trail looking back down Tea Creek to where it joins the Williams River.
Like most of WV's other wilderness and back country this was logged in the early 20th century, with the logs hauled out on narrow gauge railroad trains. A lot of the trails follow the tracks. You can still see the crossties here:
Fresh ramps dug up with my little digging trowel I whittled with the knife!
. What does the little lady have around her neck? Looks like a BRKT.
