Til the Last Hemlock Dies

I might not have made it a full week past my 60th birthday: Maybe the most physically exhausting day of backpacking of my life. It started...

Another brief post for today. One of my favorite spots in North Carolina is the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area. It's true wilderness and...

The only "bad" part of the hike to Shortoff was the connector trail that begins at the end of Wolf Pit Road. This trail was blazed...

Icicles and snow and mountains! Shortoff Mountain with the famous climbing walls visible on the left. OK. T he following are just kickass ...

After Jack and I stopped to take some photos from the first of many of Shortoff Mountain's lower summits, Andy caught up with us and we ...

For the next few days I'm going to be hard at work on my novel. Therefore, I'll post a photo log of our hike to the summit of Shorto...

I went hiking today (Sunday, February 7, 2010) in the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area. Our goal was the summit of Shortoff Mountain. It's...