I hike year around. Walking, especially in the woods, restores my inner calm. For various reasons, I haven’t been able to hike or walk nearly as much as normal. There have been no long hikes in the mountains, or short ones for that matter. I am lucky in that I have good local trails with lots of woods surrounding them.
Continue reading “Birds On a Winter Hike”
Purgatory Mountain, North Carolina is the location for a short story I wrote for an anthology published in August 2020. As such, this hike focused on the trail, or rather, the area that wasn’t trail. My story timeline is the Civil War, and I needed to get the lay of the land and identify places where the action in my story could take place.
Continue reading “Purgatory Mountain: the Hike and the Story”
Picnic tables at the top of Hollow Rock Trail overlooking the valley? Check. Continue reading “Rocky Face Mountain Recreational Area, North Carolina”
Located in Pilot Mountain State Park North Carolina, Pilot Creek Trail is an out and back that travels adjacent to Pilot Mountain. Continue reading “Pilot Creek Trail”
Normally, when I hike, I’m on a mountain trail or in the deep woods. Continue reading “Not My Normal Hike”
After a couple of months of not much hiking, I put hiking boots to soil on a good trail this week. Continue reading “Christmas Hike in Stone Mountain NC”
N. R. Tucker 