So it’s back to real hiking this week: up-and-down slogs, feet slipping into creeks, sticks poking me in the face. The first three sections of the Sauratown Trail run west out of Hanging Rock State Park — notable for its…
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Destinations at EveryTrail.com
by tom • February 21, 2010 • 0 Comments
The gang at EveryTrail.com has a new feature for all us GPS geeks: Destinations — which gather all the EveryTrail trips for a specific geographic region into a single page. The new stuff refines the Guides project that Trailspotting and…
Another stroll at Tanglewood
by tom • February 21, 2010 • 2 Comments
Latest example of how things around here aren’t like the Bay Area: a week with no rain will not dry up the mud situation (the Winter From Hell does seem to be on its way out of town, though). I…
First visit: Tanglewood Park
by tom • February 15, 2010 • 1 Comment
I spent a few hours Sunday getting to know Tanglewood Park, which was the main reason we chose to buy a condo in Clemmons, a bedroom burb on Winston-Salem’s southwest edge. We closed on the condo last week, but Melissa’s…
Greenway gambolin’: Salem Creek Trail
by tom • February 7, 2010 • 2 Comments
The mud’s deep enough to bury a Buick around here, so I decided it was as a good a day as any to stroll the length of the Salem Creek Trail, a four-mile greenway that starts at a shopping center…
Point of interest: Blowing Rock
by tom • February 6, 2010 • 3 Comments
Gambolin’ Man sent me an e-mail asking if I’d ever seen a movie set in Winston-Salem called “Goodbye Solo.” Turns out I’m such a movie geek that I had in fact seen it: the story goes like this: African cab…
A couple winter scenes
by tom • February 6, 2010 • 0 Comments
We’ve had two blizzards this year, the most recent arriving last weekend. Each produced a blanket of snow no more than 6 inches deep, which sounds like a pittance to those in colder latitudes but is plenty enough to paralyze…
Sauratown Trail, Sections 12-13
by tom • February 6, 2010 • 0 Comments
Nobody asked me to document the Sauratown Trail, and I’m sure the last stragglers among my Bay Area readers wish I would move on to sexier terrain, but I feel like this stretch of dirt deserves bloggage. The trail itself…