North Carolina Mountain Articles

I found this video on YouTube today… Max Patch Hike a section of the famous Appalachian National Scenic Trail (or A.T.) on top of Max Patch Mountain near Hot Springs. This 4,600-foot mountain was cleared…

The new year is always a kind of chronological trope, an imaginary point of debarkation. We are so deeply knotted to time past and time future that come Jan. 1, we are hardly shoving off…

From Coffee Muses A fifty year old Christmas Card greeting being sent from my family one more time just as it was in 1958. Merry Christmas all… I’ll be doing the family bit for the…

The Conservation Trust for North Carolina (CTNC) has purchased the 101-acre Jackson Knob Cove tract in McDowell County, on the Blue Ridge escarpment in the Catawba River Basin. The property, near milepost 326, is visible…

I stumbled upon this today… The Way Home. If you are a lover of straight lines and tidy endings, be forewarned. This is not a straightforward drive from point A to point B. It will…

Watauga County Farmers’ Market will be having the first holiday market of the season this Saturday, November 22 from 10 to 2. We are expecting more vendors this year and you will have a wide…

For almost three decades, John Francis has been a planetwalker, traveling the globe by foot and sail with a message of environmental respect and responsibility (for 10 of those years without speaking). A funny, thoughtful…

It looks like we won’t get the opportunity to roam the Parkway this year.

It has been a season of extremes for Grandfather Mountain. Earlier in the month, the tourist attraction experienced record highs for two days in a row, but unseasonably cold weather tied the record for the…

It’s not easy to find silence in the modern world. If a quiet place is one where you can listen for fifteen minutes in daylight hours without hearing a human-created sound, there are no quiet…

30th Annual VALLE COUNTRY FAIR October 18, 2008 (always the 3rd Saturday in October) FairgroundsThe Valle Country Fair is an overgrown church bazaar set in the center of one of the most picturesque valleys in…

I wish I was here… View of Lost Cove on the south slopes of Grandfather Mountain: Grab your sweater because the temperatures are falling Highs will be in the low fifties this weekend Friday had…

It looks like it will be a good weekend for the Farmer’s Market…Ray’s calling for a cool and overcast morning, so bundle up and enjoy…I wish I was in the hHigh Country to enjoy the…