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| View from the Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee © Doug Hickok (Click on image for larger view) |
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| Appalachian Trail and Chain of Balds, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| View from Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Dried Grasses, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Mountain Ash, Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Birch Grove, Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Spruce-Fir Forest, Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Star Moss with Snow, Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Trail through Spruce-Fir Forest, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Snow, Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Becky hiking Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina © Doug Hickok |
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| Plank Bridge, Appalachian Trail, Roan Highlands, North Carolina © Doug Hickok Last fall we took a hike along part of the Appalachian Trail. We began on a high ridge, a treeless Appalachian bald, with 360 degree views of the Roan Highlands. As we progressed up a mountain side, through a spruce-fir forest, we hiked through a wonderland of snow. The beautiful scenery and silence along this section of trail was invigorating, giving us the feeling that we could go on forever. We enjoyed this hike so much that we want to return again another season. |