One-word summary of this outing: Wet. Sweat on the way up, rain on the way down. I finished soaked from the top of my cap to the soles of my shiny new New Balance trail runners. Yes, I took rain…
Piedmont
Hikes in the Piedmont region of North Carolina – east of the mountains, west of the coast.
Walking and racing at Tanglewood Park
by tom • May 9, 2010 • 1 Comment
I had to run a few errands this weekend so there was no time for a long drive to the mountains. Had to make do with a few hours in Tanglewood Park, a mostly flat and only mildly interesting hiking…
River Sections, Pilot Mountain State Park
by tom • March 28, 2010 • 2 Comments
I hiked to this section of Pilot Mountain State Park a few weeks back, but the 13 miles of getting there and returning didn’t leave much energy for exploration. This time I just drove up to the River Sections and…
Corridor Trail at Pilot Mountain State Park
by tom • March 15, 2010 • 1 Comment
The whole point of this hike was to stroll down the 6-mile Corridor Trail connecting the upper and lower sections of Pilot Mountain State Park and check out the Yadkin River at the far southern end. I knew I was…
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…
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.)