hikes, bikes, and beyond
Last Friday’s weather was fantastic. I had to work. But I did make time Saturday to get out for a hike. The weather was about 10 degrees cooler than Friday, but it was still sunny and quite pleasant for a hike. My goal was do Hike Trip #205 from the Uwharrie Lakes Region Trail Guide....
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The Uwharrie Trail Club has recently seen a revival. Ok, maybe I’m a little slow in catching on. “Recently” might only be true if you include last year in that description. But for a club that first got started in the early 1970′s, last year is fairly “recent”. 2010 started with no active club in...
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January 8th started out crisp and partly cloudy. Temp’s hovered around freezing as I drove to Montgomery County and delivered more copies of the Uwharrie Lakes Region Trail Guide to Melinda at the Eldorado Outpost. My next goal was to explore the Town of Troy Nature Trail. I had seen the sign for this trail...
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With close to 6,000 copies of the Uwharrie Lakes Region Trail Guide having been sold, I’m convinced this book proved itself to be a project worth doing. I incorporated some features in the guidebook that I as a hiker wanted to have in a trail guide but didn’t often see in others. These features included...
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December 21st will be a busy night for sky viewing. This date is when the winter solstice occurs in 2010. It also happens to be the date of a full moon. The December full moon is often called the Cold Moon or Long Night’s Moon, both are appropriate names for those of us in the...
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Hike Trip #204 (PDF) This month’s featured hike trip is #204 from the Uwharrie Lakes Region Trail Guide. This 9.17 mile hike starts at the Wood Run Trailhead on NC24-27 and combines parts of the Uwharrie and Keyauwee Trails to form a “lollipop” route. The “lollipop” loop itself is just over 5 miles around. Along...
Any trip deserves at least some thought about what was learned from the experience. On a really high level, I learned I need to pack lighter and go slower. Ok, so I (and most of my friends) already knew I had a problem with packing too much stuff. Always have and probably always will. I’ll...
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Friday, July 17th Friday morning dawned a bit gray. But at least it wasn’t raining. We packed up quickly, partly because we had done this every day for almost two weeks now, and partly because it was going home day. I could suggest that Brian was looking forward to getting home more than me because...
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Thursday, July 16th We got up early and hit the road in an attempt to miss the morning rush-hour traffic of St. Louis. By early, I’m talking about on the road at 7-ish. It went fairly well until I had a momentary brain lapse and did not register part of a three-lane-wide road sign. It...
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Wednesday, July 15th It was still lightly raining when we woke up on Wednesday morning. We packed our gear and headed to the campground building for an “all you can eat” pancake breakfast. The only other patrons there were three older couples from the RV crowd. I think the staff knew them all from previous...
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