Bryce Canyon National Park, 2006 I just spent an hour watching previews and excerpts from the latest Ken Burns magnus opus, “The National Parks, America’s Best Idea,” which opens Sept. 27 (this coming Sunday) on PBS stations nationwide. If you…
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Waterfalls of Hanging Rock State Park
by tom • September 20, 2009 • 3 Comments
Funny what happens when you show up at a popular state park when it’s not a holiday weekend: no weddings, no crowds, only one pack of noisy Cub Scouts on a camp-out. All of this (plus the weather forecast predicting…
New book on stories of the Great Smokies
by tom • September 17, 2009 • 0 Comments
A new book by William A. Hart Jr., “3000 Miles in the Great Smokies,” recounts the tales he collected in 40 years of hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains. A sampling was posted in the Citizen-Times of Ashville, NC: The…
Touching tribute to a lost hiker
by tom • September 16, 2009 • 2 Comments
I found this on Vimeo. It’s called “Wait for Me.” Wait For Me (3 Minute Documentary) from Red Light Films on Vimeo.
OK, class, tell us about your summer vacation
by tom • September 16, 2009 • 8 Comments
OK, after three address changes and one (probably permanent) career change, it’s time to get back to this business of blogging about hiking. Main motivator: Two Heel Drive has slipped to No. 2 in the “hiking blog” rankings on Google…
Man what a week that was
by tom • September 13, 2009 • 0 Comments
Didn’t get so much as a nanosecond on the trail this weekend, though I did get in a fair amount of elevation gain carrying a load. Last Tuesday we learned that my Aunt Bev had passed on; we drove 13…
First hike at Hanging Rock
by tom • September 6, 2009 • 5 Comments
There’s only one major exception to the gently undulating terrain near Winston-Salem: The Sauratown Mountains, a small range about 30 miles northwest of here. Centerpiece of these neighboring peaks is Hanging Rock State Park, so named because of large rock…