The John Rock Hike via the Cat Gap/John Rock Trails *John Rock is one of Becauseitzthere’s Best Hikes in North Carolina. It is also a featured Best Hike Near Asheville (it is less than an hour away.) See our hikes page!* Sylvia and I chose John Rock, located in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, as our inaugural hike of 2018, […]
MOUNT CAMMERER, GSMNP
***This is a reboot of a post originally featured on the old blog of one of several hikes we did in October in the Great Smoky Mountains. The rest were nowhere near as good as this one (mostly due to weather.) This one bears mentioning as perhaps the best view in the entire park. Not mentioned below was the very […]
The Alum Cave Trail to Mt. Leconte
***This is a a re-boot of The Alum Cave Trail to Mt. Leconte Post featured on our old Blog in 2017…while Sylvia and I very much enjoyed this aerobically challenging hike, we don’t regard it is one of the best in we’ve ever done. In fact, there are better hikes in the Smokies…Mt. Cammerer for example! Apologies in advance for […]
OLD RAG MOUNTAIN
***Here’s a re-boot of the post I originally posted on our old blog site about a hike we did in September of last year…Virginia’s Old Rag Mountain. I have more and better pictures of the hike now. 🙂 Sylvia and I both consider this to be the Best Day Hike in the entire Southern Appalachian Mountains…IF you go when it’s […]