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…
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Hikes in North Carolina
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…
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…
Sauratown Trail – Sections 14-16
by tom • January 10, 2010 • 0 Comments
Good trail, great idea: Seems some local hikers and horse people decided there was no good reason not to have a trail connecting Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock state parks, which are, after all, a mere dozen miles apart as…
New Year’s Day stroll at Salem Lake
by tom • January 1, 2010 • 3 Comments
I told a guy on the trail that I always try to get out for a New Year’s Day hike, though the facts don’t back me up: Just two First Day hikes in the past five (2007 and 2005 if…
Early New Year’s Resolution Hike at Pilot Mountain
by tom • December 27, 2009 • 1 Comment
Three weeks of gross lassitude and all-around laziness ended Sunday with a seven-mile hike at Pilot Mountain State Park (site of my first-ever North Carolina hike.)
Winter introduction to Grandfather Mountain
by tom • December 6, 2009 • 17 Comments
Somebody has gotten it into their heads there ought to be winter in the Southern Appalachians. I was not consulted. I was thinking I should have had my head examined when I showed up in autumn apparel at a deep-valley…