We’re back to our late-November color pallet of dirt, bark and dead leaves, which, frankly, is a welcome break from Leaf Season and the one-hike-a-year crowd. Leaf Season was on my mind yesterday at Eno River State Park, which is…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Festival of Lights, minus the lights
by tom • November 21, 2010 • 0 Comments
I figured anybody could take snazzy nighttime snapshots of the Festival of Lights, which happens every holiday season at Tanglewood Park. The fest is one of the biggest light shows in the Southeast, which means the roads past our neighborhood…
History hike at Old Salem Musuems & Gardens
by tom • November 19, 2010 • 2 Comments
Consider this sequel to last year’s history hike at Bethabara Park. The first Moravian settlers in the modern-day Triad region bunked in an old trapper’s cabin at Bethabara, but their leaders back in Pennsylvania had much larger plans: a whole…
Quick pic from latest hike
by tom • November 14, 2010 • 0 Comments
I spent a few hours Sunday at Morrow Mountain State Park, about 60 miles south of the Triad. I’ve posted about all the fall-color shots I can stand, but I figured I could squeeze in one more and hopefully call…
First hike at Doughton Park
by tom • November 7, 2010 • 6 Comments
These days you have to take the back door into Doughton Park, which is next door to Stone Mountain State Park on the east edge of the Blue Ridge Escarpment. I found that out the hard way when I tried…
How I made my own newspapers for hikers and gear geeks
by tom • November 1, 2010 • 3 Comments
A couple weeks back I had too much time on my hands and stumbled across a web site called Paper.Li, which performs a heart-warming task for old news hacks such as yours truly: it does all the work of putting…