Brian and I spent a few days fishing and camped on the hard to find Big Snowbird. Big Snowbird Creek has a variety of fish, including rainbows, browns, and brook trout in various areas of the creek. It’s the “grand slam” of mountain fly fishing if you’re willing or shall I say able to not … Continue reading Camping at Big Snowbird Creek
This will be a unique and absolutely gorgeous waterfall, located in the Ranger District of Pisgah National Forest near Brevard. The hike is an easy 5.5 mile roundtrip hike, that has four different waterfalls along the way. Directions: From The Blue Ridge Parkway, take Highway 27 towards Brevard. After passing Looking Glass Falls, watch for … Continue reading Grogran Creek Falls
A very easy 2.5 mile round-trip hike in Pisgah. A cascade plus free fall turns into more of a slide, which veers left before ending in a small, shallow pool. It’s in an intimate setting, so photographing it can be a challenge. But it’s also rarely visited, so you’ll likely have the place all to … Continue reading Long Branch Falls
For me this was a challenging hike, for two reasons. one, it’s a long uphill and a long downhill with not much elevation change in between. Two, the viewpoint, or the Bunion in this case is a tad more dangerous than I’d like. So for those reasons it was more than just another Sunday morning … Continue reading The Lollipop Kephart Loop to Charlies Bunion
The trail for Wolf Pond begins 10 miles from I-87 on Blue Ridge Road, a twisty corridor off Exit 29 of I-87. Once we are on Blue Ridge Road, there were views of mountains and more than half a dozen trailheads to explore. The trail is pretty easy except for a few short, moderately steep … Continue reading Adirondacks Hike to Wolf Pond
We will start off with breakfast at Rathbun’s Maple Sugar House in Granville (Whitehall address: 1208 Hatch Hill Rd, Whitehall, NY.) It’s pancakes, waffles, french toast with pure maple syrup. They also have eggs. Menu online. Then it’s a short (15-20 min.) drive over to Haystack Mt. in Pawlet, VT to work it off. This … Continue reading Haystack Mt -Pawlet VT. & Breakfast
Let’s start at the Kaikout Kill Barrens on the white trail .7 towards a diverse forest of pitch pine-scrub oak barrens, and native prairies adorning rolling sand dunes including the Great Dune on the Red Trail 1.8. We will take it counterclockwise to the Blue Trail 1.4 staying on the blue trail until the yellow … Continue reading Albany Pine Bush Preserve White, Red, Blue & Yellow
Let’s follow the Purple trail through the woods, over 2 bridges across the Hunger Kill and two road crossings to DiCaprio Park. The trail continues along the perimeter of various athletic fields to the DiCaprio Park Trailhead #11 where we will retrace our steps back to our car for a 3.7 mile in and out … Continue reading Albany Pine Bush Preserve Purple Trail
The winged insects are set to pop out of the ground in the coming weeks in a rare synchronized event that last occurred in 1803. Get a pair of cicada glasses: https://busyhiker.square.site/ This year’s emergence is expected to be unusually large, with some experts estimating that more than a trillion cicadas could blanket parts of … Continue reading Cicadas incoming: Billions of insects poised to emerge in double-brood invasion
Our hike will start at the Salt Rock Gap parking area at the end of Breedlove Road in Cashiers. We stopped at the salt rock overlook and saw a stormy day of beauty. From here we headed down the Wilderness Falls Trail to Wildcat Falls. Frolic town Trail to Frolic town Falls. We then proceeded … Continue reading Panther-town 5 waterfall hike.
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