auntie | April 30, 2022
6.68 miles; 453 ft. total elevation gain; Cherokee, NC I’ve been a member of the North Carolina Native Plant Society for a while now, as well as an active volunteer (I’m on the newsletter committee), so when I got the email that announced the Spring Hike Weekend, I was all over it like white on […]
auntie | April 27, 2022
6.73 miles; 560 ft. total ascent; Asheville, NC I’ve been a member of the Arboretum since I moved down here in early 2020, and I’ve done hikes on some of the trails here, but I never really did a tour of the place, so I decided today it was about time already! I met this […]
auntie | May 6, 2021
6.74 miles; 639 ft. total elevation; Asheville, NC So I saw this story about a tunnel on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in my local paper. It read in part: In April, a portion of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail on the Blue Ridge Parkway, which sits along a section of land owned and operated by eight different jurisdictions, became an illegal […]
auntie | April 6, 2021
6.3 miles; 276 ft. total elevation; Brevard, NC I was intrigued by the name of this route, although I wasn’t there at a time when the rhodys and mountain laurels would be in bloom, I was still excited to see it. It gets its name, by the way… well, lemme outsource the description to the […]
auntie | January 15, 2021
6.35 miles; 454 ft. total ascent; Asheville, NC [Note: the stats above include my walk to and from. The website claims to have 3 1/2 miles of paved paths, but color me skeptical. I covered about a mile and a half inside the gates, and I would guess I saw at least half of it… […]
auntie | January 14, 2021
5.6 miles; 434 ft. total ascent; Asheville, NC Another trip around these two pretty trails. I saw nary a soul for the first 3 or so miles, then it was trail runners and mountain bikers up the wazoo. Just goes to show, you really have to keep alert. These are still, imo, some of the […]
