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224 Beyond Blue Hole Resolved

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       The last three days have seen temps in the high nineties, up until a week ago I was always waiting for the warmest days to go hiking, now I’m hoping for ‘cooler’ days.  Today is only supposed to reach the high sixties, so probably the only day this week with ‘hiking’ as an option.  I’ve decided to go back to Carver Cemetery, and see if I can hike down river, crossing Big Creek then east through 'pieces' of Gene Rush and Buffalo National River. Blue Hole #5      My planned route is a little vague: head from the cemetery over to Big Creek, cross to the other side, then look for trails or ‘firelanes’ or old roads that head generally in a east direction, hopefully close to the Buffalo.  I start out through a big field, then down through some woods to a lower and smaller field.  On the east side of this field is a high bank above Big Creek, but I don’t see an easy way down. hay field between Carver Cemetery and Big Cree...

223 Daniel Mountain Loop

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       Often while looking at a map, searching for someplace new to go hiking, I’m drawn to old forest service roads since they usually make great hiking routes.  One of these that I’ve been looking at for some time is FR 1200B on Daniel Mountain just west of Richland Creek Wilderness.  On the maps this road (aka Daniel Mountain Road) appears to be pretty flat, so little elevation gain on an old road, should be an easy hike. fire aftermath      I pull off NC 5070, and park at Rosamond Cemetery, right across the road Daniel Mtn. Rd. heads north on the ridge of Daniel Mountain.  Before I get 100 feet from the cemetery I see all across the ridge has recently been burned, I’ll assume this is the result of a ‘prescribed burn’ but how would I know, it could have been a ‘lightning strike wildfire’.  At any rate, everything is charred black and pretty ugly. Rosamond Cemetery      This is easy hiking, as expected the road i...