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Reminiscing from the Roan Highlands

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , , , on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The Roan Highlands is a stretch of the Appalachian Mountains in Tennessee, and it’s famous for having some of the beautiful mountain meadows in all of Appalachia. It’s also famous for its wildflowers, particularly the rhododendrons, which bloom in June… right when we happened to be visiting. So with that in mind, I enthusiastically packed [...]

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Tidbit of the Day: Mountain Streams Are Still Cold in April

Posted in Travel, tagged , , on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend a group of us headed down to Caesar Head State Park in South Carolina. It’s a beautiful area, with lots of creeks and streams that course and burble their way through lush, picturesque valleys and forests. And because it’s on the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, there are plenty of waterfalls as [...]

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Back to Backpacking: A Trek Through the Highlands

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

After two months of not being able to do much backpacking thanks to lots of snow and ice, we were finally able to head out this weekend. The destination was Grayson Highlands National Park in Virginia, the temperature was chilly but bearable, and the weather was probably going to rain. Sounds like fun! The plan [...]

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March Musings, on the Anniversary of an Adventure

Posted in Life, Travel, tagged , , on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

March 8th. Unless it’s your birthday or your anniversary, it’s the sort of day that’s likely to pass unmarked and unnoticed, just another Monday ticked off the calendar. The last time March 8th fell on a Monday was March 8th, 2004. It’s a day that holds special meaning for me because on that day, I [...]

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Getting my Feet Wet

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Two weeks ago I dusted off my backpacking gear, which has sat unused for over a year, and went backpacking on Shackleford Banks, a little island on the southern edge of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It’s only about nine miles long by half a mile wide (if that), but it’s a cool little island. Among [...]

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