Sunday, October 18, 2020

2020-10-15 Laurel Mountain / Pilot Rock hike

Laurel Mountain / Pilot Rock Shuttle Hike
With Kyle, Angelina, and Sammy
Pisgah National Forest
Transylvania County, NC
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
 
Kyle, Angelina, and Sammy on Little Bald Mountain
 
 
Kyle, Angelina, Sammy and I enjoyed a nice hike along the Laurel Mountain Trail and Pilot Rock Trail.
 
We decided to do the hike as a shuttle starting at Yellow Gap and heading up the Laurel Mountain Trail and down Pilot Rock trail. Total distance was about 11 miles.
 
 
 
Here are some of the photos from a beautiful day along the trail with some good friends:
 
Selfie with Angelina and Sammy along the laurel Mountain Trail

Sammy and Kyle checking out some cool rocks and caves along the Laurel Mountain Trail

Angelina and Sammy along the Laurel Mountain Trail

Kyle and Angelina along the Laurel Mountain Trail

Sammy waiting patiently to climb Little Bald Mountain

View from Little Bald Mountain

Kyle, Angelina, and Sammy at Little Bald Mountain

Dog Tired!

Angelina and Sammy hiking through one of many Rhododendron Tunnels

Angelina and Sammy along the Pilot Rock Trail

Kyle and Sammy on Pilot Rock

View from Pilot Rock

Kyle, Angelina, and Sammy along the Pilot Rock Trail
The sun hit the lens at just the right angle to create a lens flare rainbow in the photo
 
 
It was a beautiful day to be outside with some great friends.  Overall on the day we ran across eight other humans (2 mountain bikers + 6 hikers) and one other dog. 
 

My complete set of photos is posted here:

1 comment:

Paula Logan said...

Jack,

I love all of your pictures. Thank you for sharing them. I am so happy that Kyle & Angelina are finding some time to go hiking again and training Sammy to be just like Zig. It's awesome that they have such a great friend in you as well.

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