Hiking Day!

While we were in the mountains, Trish and I decided to take advantage of a beautiful day to get out in the world of nature and do some hiking.

From Asheville we got on the Blue Ridge Parkway and headed south toward Mount Pisgah.  We had a lovely drive passing through the ten tunnels that season the scenic drive.  When we got to the parking lot near the top of the mountain, we stopped there and headed up the trail to the top of the mountain.

When I was growing up in Waynesville we could see Mount Pisgah and, when WLOS TV in Asheville built their transmitting tower there, all of Western North could get our first television coverage.  We got our first television when I was about twelve years old.

Taking a rest along the rocky trail.

The trail was beautiful but, frankly, quite steep and rocky.  We did get in our exercise on this trail.
This time of year is a great fungus season, and the variety of mushrooms along this walk was amazing and beautiful.

Beautiful mushrooms, ferns, and mosses along the way.

Once back down from the top of the mountain, we drove on toward Cherokee and stopped at the Devil’s Courthouse parking lot.  The walk up to the overlook is very steep but not too very long and the view from the top is really worth it.

You can see forever from the top of Devil’s Courthouse.

After that walk, we were done with exercise and we took a route back to Asheville that took us past Camp Daniel Boone, the Boy Scout camp where I was a kitchen steward the summer of 1959.  The camp was empty due to COVID, but I got to show Trish a lot of places that have not changed at all in nearly sixty years.

We had a wonderful day and ended with a sunset dinner on the terrace of Grove Park Inn.