auntie | October 20, 2020
9.73 miles; 7 feet ascent; Marshall, NC Oh, wow, what a beautiful trail! And considering it’s in the mountains of Western North Carolina, it’s a remarkably flat trail, too, with only 7 total feet of ascent. It follows the Laurel River out to its confluence with the French Broad River. Again, though, AllTrails said it […]
auntie | October 12, 2020
7.7 miles; 475′ ascent; Arden and Asheville, NC Another Feisty Women hike. This has a heck of a lot less ascent than it felt like. Most of the climbing is at the beginning. Only had to stop while gasping for air once, so getting better. We had a lot of rain this past weekend as […]
auntie | September 26, 2020
7.2 miles; Asheville, NC This was a “Feisty Women” hike and hooowee this was a hard one for me. Lugging my extra 20 Covid pounds up and down the hills was just not fun, and I ended up at the end of the group. Again. Good news? No major disasters, although we were warned there […]
auntie | March 13, 2020
6.8 miles; Hendersonville, NC All I can think of when I look at the name of this trail is But that’s not it. Forget it. Sorry for the earworm. Today I just needed to get a longer walk in but didn’t need it to be so, uh, vertical as yesterday. This fit the bill perfectly. […]
auntie | October 19, 2019
7.1 miles/day average; Seoul, South Korea My younger niece was taking a semester abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and being an adventurous as well as a loving Auntie, I told her I’d come and see her while she was there. I spent a week in Seoul. It was one heck of a trip! The first […]
auntie | September 7, 2019
8 miles; New Haven, Hamden, Woodbridge CT I finally managed to finish this one up! [See this post for part 1.] What an amazing hike. Really loved it, and really felt good the whole way today, too. Seeing some color on the ground at least, if not in the trees. I took this little shortcut […]
