PT and I went for a little walk on Saturday in the Black Balsam Wilderness. We crossed Black Balsam Knob (see above) and made our way to Tennent Mountain where we stopped for lunch. We hung out, chatted and watched some hawks. On the way back we took part of the Art Loeb Trail where I tried my best to step on a snake. Turned out it was just a garter snake … so it wasn’t anything to get too uppity about. I would have gotten a picture but he slithered away pretty quickly. The main thing that I did catch on the hike was a sunburn. So, I am gonna be a nice lobster pink when I travel to NYC later this week.
View of Looking Glass Rock from Tennant Mountain.
PT having his lunch. Graveyard Fields is below us.
Gratuitous Self-Portrait.
View of the Shining Rocks and the summit of Cold Mountain.
Mountain and Valley View.
Tennent Mountain Marker.
Hawk!
More Mountains …
The Lazy Hikers (PT and Myself).
I did that Shining Rocks/Cold Mountain hike when I was in the Boy Scouts around 1975. Great pictures!
Looks like your weather was a lot nicer than ours this weekend!! Great photos!! Say “Hey!” to PT for me…………..
Yup. Nice weather that crispy fried the back of my neck, arms and legs. Yow!!!
Gotta start using sunscreen!!!
Yeah … I know. But it was one of those “temp wasn’t super hot so I didn’t think about” kind of days. Oh well …