Posts

Latest Post

209 Mill Creek Trail and Beyond

-
Image
       The cold and flu bug has been hanging around our house for a week now, but this morning is shaping up to be a gorgeous day.   Enough laying around the house, I need to get outside, maybe going hiking is just what the doctor ordered.   As soon as the thermometer hits 40° I hit the road, since I don’t want to push my luck I hope to keep today's a   short and sweet  hike. Mill Creek      Pruitt on the Buffalo River makes for a relatively short drive, so I’m going to check out Mill Creek Trail.   We hiked this trail once over ten years ago, my enduring memory from that day was of two young men hanging out on the creek one playing a banjo the other a guitar.   Long before we saw them we kept hearing distant music, it was kind of eerie reminding us of the movie ‘Deliverance’. Mill Creek Trailhead Hurd Desmond Bluff      Ahh, the things that stick in our memories, but that was then, now there are two brid...
Post a Comment
Read more

208 Old Road to Sugar Tree Knob

-
Image
       After a couple recent adventures where I fought with some thick underbrush of weeds, blackberry and greenbrier  (see: 205 Boondoggle I and then 206 Boondoggle II ) , I swore off bushwhacking for a while.  Today I’ve decided to hike up to Sugar Tree Knob in Richland Creek Wilderness, although there isn’t an actual ‘trail’ the route follows some old roads, so I’m hoping for ‘clear sailing’ there and back, I’ll keep my fingers crossed. pedestal point      The parking area off NC 5050 aka Moore Road is nice and big with room for ten cars or more, this is outside the wilderness on the west side of the road.   I head up the road just a little before striking out into the woods in a northeast direction, (already off-trail that didn’t take long) but this isn’t very far.   In about 1000 feet is the old road (FR 1203C), where I land just east of a dirt berm, and less than 100 feet is a little pond. little pond      Her...
Post a Comment
Read more