I knew this climb would not be a picnic — three miles of trail and 2,000 feet of ascent separate Calloway Peak from the Boone Fork trailhead at mile 299.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Don’t let the short distance…
Destinations
Places I’ve hiked and you should hike.
Two-in-one trek at Julian Price Memorial Park
by tom • April 10, 2010 • 4 Comments
Got back to the mountains this weekend to check out a couple trails near a tourist-heavy stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Where I ended up: Julian Price Memorial Park, just up the road from Grandfather Mountain. The Parkway splits…
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…
Grandfather Mountain 2, Me 0
by tom • March 21, 2010 • 6 Comments
I want you to know, all 14 of my devoted readers, that at the first sign of spring I darted west to the Real Mountains to do some Real Hiking — no more of this flat-land fakery for me, by…
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…
Sauratown Trail, Sections 1-3
by tom • February 28, 2010 • 0 Comments
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…
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…