GetHiking! Southeast's Classic Hikes Archives - GetGoing NC! https://getgoingnc.com/tag/gethiking-southeasts-classic-hikes/ Explore the outdoors, discover yourself. Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:49:28 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 90 Second Escape: A Classic Weekend at Standing Indian https://getgoingnc.com/2016/07/90-second-escape-a-classic-weekend-at-standing-indian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=90-second-escape-a-classic-weekend-at-standing-indian https://getgoingnc.com/2016/07/90-second-escape-a-classic-weekend-at-standing-indian/#respond Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:49:28 +0000 http://getgoingnc.com/?p=8298 Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, … Continue reading 90 Second Escape: A Classic Weekend at Standing Indian →

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]]> Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: A Classic Weekend at Standing Indian

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Our GetHiking! Southeast’s Classic Hikes crew spent this past weekend hiking the Standing Indian Area of the Nantahala National Forest southwest of Franklin. While much of the rest of the state broiled in temperatures in the mid-90s, our crew enjoyed mountain-top temperatures in the 70s and a refreshing dip back at the campsite.

Enjoy these scenes from our Classic Weekend at Standing Indian …

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]]> https://getgoingnc.com/2016/07/90-second-escape-a-classic-weekend-at-standing-indian/feed/ 0 90 Second Escape: Hiking Big Creek up the Blue Ridge https://getgoingnc.com/2016/06/90-second-escape-hiking-big-creek-up-the-blue-ridge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=90-second-escape-hiking-big-creek-up-the-blue-ridge https://getgoingnc.com/2016/06/90-second-escape-hiking-big-creek-up-the-blue-ridge/#respond Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:14:38 +0000 http://getgoingnc.com/?p=8271 Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, … Continue reading 90 Second Escape: Hiking Big Creek up the Blue Ridge →

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]]> Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Hiking Big Creek

The North Mills River area of the Pisgah National Forest, is known for its abundant steep hills leading up the Blue Ridge Escarpment, short, steep hills that channel rainfall from on up every which way: here, the question isn’t whether to bring water shoes, it’s whether to bring hiking boots.

Saturday, our GetHiking! Southeast’s Classic Hikes crew enjoyed low humidity and temperatures in the 70s for a 15-creek-crossing hike from the North Mills River Recreation Area Campground to Little Pisgah Ridge.

Some scenes from our day on the trail.

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]]> https://getgoingnc.com/2016/06/90-second-escape-hiking-big-creek-up-the-blue-ridge/feed/ 0 90 Second Escape: Scenes from a GetHiking! Classic Weekend https://getgoingnc.com/2016/05/90-second-escape-scenes-from-a-gethiking-classic-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=90-second-escape-scenes-from-a-gethiking-classic-weekend https://getgoingnc.com/2016/05/90-second-escape-scenes-from-a-gethiking-classic-weekend/#respond Mon, 09 May 2016 17:05:52 +0000 http://getgoingnc.com/?p=8204 Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, … Continue reading 90 Second Escape: Scenes from a GetHiking! Classic Weekend →

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]]> Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Scenes from a GetHiking! Classic Weekend

Our GetHiking! Southeast’s Classic Hikes crew just got back from the first of six hiking weekends planned for the year. Saturday, they hiked a 12-mile stretch of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Craggy Mountains; Sunday, it was a 4.8-mile climb to the top of Graybeard Mountain in the Montreat Wilderness.

Saturday, above 6,000 feet, they got a taste of winter (complete with snow on the ground); Sunday, was spring hiking at its best, with lots of sun, emerging wildflowers, and even a cranky timber rattler.

Here are scenes from the weekend. For more on our GetHiking! Southeast’s Classic Hikes program, go here.

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]]> Monday — never an easy time for the outdoors enthusiast. After a weekend of adventure, returning to the humdrum work-a-day world can make one melancholy. To help ease the transition, every Monday we feature a 90 Second Escape — essentially, a 90-second video or slide show of a place you’d probably rather be: a trail, a park, a greenway, a lake … anywhere as long as it’s not under a fluorescent bulb.

Today’s 90-Second Escape: Last Day of Winter, at Doughton Park

Winter didn’t exactly leave without a fight this year. After suggesting it was willing to leave early midweek with the temperature hitting the mid 80s, it regained its identity on its final day.

At Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway the temperature didn’t budge from near 40 on Saturday. It was gray, overcast. But the threatened rain failed to materialize, making for a fitting end of the season, for our GetHiking! Southeast’s Classic Hikes crew.

Some scenes from Winter’s last hurrah.

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