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Endless streams and forests
http://streamsandforests.wordpress.com
A blog about the outdoors, containing references to varied and eccentric topics such as the New England Hundred Highest, Colorado Fourteeners, rockhopping in the Smokies, the Hercynian Forest of Germania, the Boer War, and Bob and his trout fishing.
- Added on: Oct 26th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jenny
- Listed in: Adventure
- Tags: hiking white mountains
Recent Posts
Hickory Knob
Looking from Hickory Knob toward Black Mountain This was a short snowshoe outing in Pisgah National Forest. It had the advantage that the trailhead is not far up Hwy. 276, close to the ranger station. The road today was still in pretty bad shape ...
“The odors of blossoms and aromatic wood”
Joseph Conrad’s tale “Youth” is about the intersection of two forces: the mesmerizing power of the East and the careless strength that comes from being young. A power multiplied by a strength. That creates the kind of intensity...
Old Butt Knob trail
View of East Fork from Blue Ridge Parkway. Photo by Tsimmons. This was hardly even a hike, and I don’t even have any pictures of my own. (The photos at beginning and end are from Wikimedia Commons.) But this short climb gave me the kind of ...
Oom Gert’s story
Gladiolus alatus near Clanwilliam. Photo by Winfried Bruenken. Johannes Lotter, a Cape rebel. He was executed. “Oom Gert vertel” is C. Louis Leipoldt’s narrative poem about an old man who explains to a young visitor what happened ...
Yellow Mountain
Yes, another fire tower hike! There were a couple of reasons why I decided to conquer the 5127′ summit of Yellow Mountain in the Nantahala National Forest. First of all, it would make a good moderate leg-stretcher at approximately 10 miles, 3...
Escape of the locomotive raiders (Part 2)
In November 1862 Brown and Knight went through the Nantahala mountains This is a continuation of my post about the Andrews raiders, who hijacked a locomotive in April 1862 with the intent of disrupting Confederate movements of supplies and troops. ...
