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Catawba To Glasgow Pt. 3
A little bit of yellow-blazing before a strong finish It had rained steadily all night, but by morning the skies were clearing. I nonetheless had the joy of packing up a wet tent, always a good time. The day’s itinerary looked favorable, with only…
Catawba To Glasgow Pt. 2
Things take a turn for the better After a restless night of sleep I got up at 6 AM anxious to get back on the trail. But first, a visit to the free Super 8 breakfast was in order. There were no eggs, no…
Catawba To Glasgow Pt. 1
Embracing the suck of rain. LOTS of rain. I hit the road for Glasgow Friday at noon. I hoped to arrive at Stanimal’s hostel around 8:00, but due to horrible traffic jams it was after 9:30 when I finally arrived. The hostel was fairly…
Max Patch to Hot Springs
A brief and beautiful hike during a severe drought It seems like it was longer ago, but a mere three years ago this October Mule and I did one of the laziest weeks ever. We started at Sams Gap and hiked 43 miles generally…
VA42 to VA624 Pt. 2
Playing catch up, unsuccessfully I got a pretty early start the next morning, actually getting on the trail before a thru-hiker (Jack)! I was dreading the roughly 1,500 ft. climb up Brush Mountain, which other hikers had described to me as anything from “a…
VA42 to VA624 Pt. 1
So many things go wrong, and it all begins before I even set foot on the trail Since the beginning of the year, I had had April 6-14 blocked off on my calendar for a section hike, one that was originally intended to be…
Newfound Gap To Fontana Dam
Fresh off our first hike on the Foothills Trail, Mule and I decided to tackle the Smokies the week after Christmas. What WERE we thinking? As I sit here in an influenza-induced delirium, I have decided that there is no better time to document…
Grayson Highlands Fall Pt. 3
The fall colors and views just kept coming It’s another warm sunny day, and we’re up and back on the trail by 10:00. We hike briefly through some of the maples that fascinated my wife. In retrospect, they remind me of Weirwood trees from…
Grayson Highlands Fall Pt. 2
The day things got REALLY good The 4th day of our little section hike through Grayson Highlands was when we started to hit the stuff we came for, and my wife accordingly took a ton of beautiful photos. So many in fact that this…
Grayson Highlands Fall Pt. 1
A perfectly timed couples hike By the fall of 2014, our growing family (then with kids aged 17, 13, 11 and 8) had been on quite a few overnight hikes together on weekends, but although the older ones seemed to enjoy them, it turned…
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