auntie | August 31, 2022
3.93 miles; 365-ft. total ascent; Cedar Mountain, NC So if you read my last post about how I never get out into the woods unless it’s on a mushroom foray… Today I went hiking with my new friend (she of the Ferguson Peak trail). I’ve been wanting to go to the Dupont State Recreational Forest […]
auntie | August 25, 2022
1.1 miles; 131 ft. total ascent; Black Mountain, NC Another day another mushroom walk. Seems like this is the only way I get out into the woods anymore. Gotta do something about that. Anyway… This is the other end of the Big Butt Trail wildflower walk I did back in May. [Imma refrain from the […]
auntie | August 20, 2022
1.2 miles; 109 ft. total ascent; Waynesville, NC This was another Asheville Mushroom Club excursion, and it wasn’t till I got here that I realized I’d hiked here before, back in June of 2020. Last time I had to make the loooong walk up the road from the gate, but because the club was doing […]
auntie | July 22, 2022
1.71 miles; 184 ft. total ascent; Sapphire, NC As you may or may not know, I am a member of the Asheville Mushroom Club (AMC—not to be confused with the Appalachian Mountain Club). The club sponsors walks or “forays” for club members, and creates species lists based on our finds. These species lists are sometimes […]
auntie | July 18, 2022
3.25 miles; 673 ft. total elevation gain; Gerton, NC This was a very serendipitous hike, in that I met a new friend when I went to my volunteer gig at the Botanical Gardens at Asheville, and we hit it off so totally that we made a date to hike together. She took me to this […]
auntie | May 5, 2022
1 mile; 303 ft. total elevation gain; Pensacola Township, NC This was a Wildflower Foray sponsored by the Asheville Mushroom Club (I know, right?), so as such, it took us over 3 hours to walk 1 mile along this trail. And the road TO the trailhead was a serious adventure, too, in that it was […]
