Can We Do This Hike Over?

Reboots Required: Hikes That Didn’t Quite Pan Out Sometimes, things don’t go as planned. In the Appalachian Mountains, this happens more often than most hikers would like to admit. There is no dry or wet season…just wet and slightly wetter. About one out of every three days in the Appalachians is a bad weather day. Which means that, now matter […]

More Autumn Wanderings

No matter where you are in the South, fall is a good time for wandering about. The best place for fall wandering is anyplace with a lot of trees where the leaves are currently changing. But at some point that describes almost everyplace in North Carolina. North Carolina is, by the way, the twelfth most heavily forested state in the […]

One, Two…Three Ridges

Three Ridges Hike Day II: Harper’s Creek Shelter to Reid’s Gap (and out!) **Note that none of these photos is doctored or enhanced in any way…this is exactly what we saw, just as we saw it.** During the night we thought we detected the faintest fall of rain, seeming to dampen our wishes for a clear day to take in […]

The Back Stairs: The Mau-Har Trail

Three Ridges Hike, Day One: Reid’s Gap to Harper’s Creek Shelter A drive of nearly an hour and half got us to the the trail head at Reid’s Gap, which we found as expected to be already well populated with cars. It seemed overflowing already on this Friday morning; only when we returned would we see what it REALLY looked […]

To The Last Ridge: The Three Ridges Loop Hike

The Three Ridges Loop Via the AT, One Of Virginia’s Best Hikes With Patagonia fast approaching, we are faced with the dilemma of how best to prepare for the challenges in the little time that we have, especially with all the other commitments we have at the moment. We expect the hiking on Torres Del Paine’s ‘W’ to be mostly […]

A Sharp Hike to Sharp Top Mountain

Sharp Top Mountain Hike, Virginia ***SUMMER RE-RUNS: Brian and Sylvia are currently off having new adventures. In the meantime, please enjoy this re-post from early spring 2018*** **We have added Sharp Top Mountain in the Peaks of Otter Recreation Area to our list of the Top Ten Hikes in the Southern Appalachians V 1.0. If you can get this on […]

Moore’s Not Less: Moore Cove Falls

Moore Cove Falls, Pisgah NF Waterfall Week, our exploration of those dramatic contests between gravity and water, continues with one of the highlights of the Pisgah National Forest’s Cradle of Forestry area — Moore Cove Falls. It is located just a short ways off US Route 276 not long after it clears the town of Brevard, but well before it […]

The Old Dominion

News from the TMB and a Hike in Virginia We’re just back from the mountains of Virginia and we have good news regarding the Tour du Mont Blanc…the Refuge Flegere has accepted our reservation! This saves us from a lot of headaches on the final night of our hike. We were greatly disappointed by the closing (hopefully temporary) of the […]