April 21, 2009
I'm working on a 20-mile stretch of the Bald Mountains where the Trail, and the state line between Tennessee and North Carolina, make a big northward bend. Camp Creek Bald has a bunch of telecom towers on top, and a road for trucks to service them, so I used it to get up into the middle of the section.
Above is Blackstack Cliff, a forbidding-looking pile which made me feel a little nervous about venturing into the wilderness!
But it turned out as usual, there were plenty of through hikers. Much of the trail was well-constructed; here's a flight of stone steps, thanks to the trail crews!
Up here at 4200 feet, trout lilies were having their fling along trailside.
And on Cold Spring Mountain, one of the nice southern Appalachian meadows. Several old roads come up here, and the gaps are named for the farmsteads that were here: Fox Cabin and Jerry Cabin.
Here's the view back south to Camp Creek Bald where I started this morning.
2 comments:
In the course of looking up your location, I found a webcam on one of the Camp Creek Bald telecom towers:
http://tinyurl.com/d6pwcr
great view
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Amazing photos, mom! Thanks for keeping us up to date.
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