Reminding me of the good life...
This week has been a roller coaster of good-bad-good-bad. There was a moment today when things felt so right, so perfect, that I wanted to share the joy. Unfortunately, the day went a little south and my mood can't quite capture what I was feeling. We'll see, maybe this will improve as I go.
The week started with a family hike at Warren Wilson College - new trail for me...the Dam Pasture Trail. Midweek a fella who has lived in the area for quite a while taught me how to trespass properly. Turns out WWC used to own this property a while back...now, If I'd ever owned a waterfall like this
I would never give it up. But then, I'm not an entity, I'm a me. The climb in was this fantastic chute of wet rocks...and climbing rocks is one of my favorite things to do...right evilpirate007?
I also like moss, lichen and such.
Before hitting this particular trail, I had the opportunity to go through chintzville and glimpse my very first view of Chimney Rock!!!! This is where 2-time Oscar winner-to-be DDL filmed a great cliff sequence. I promise better pictures once it is fully open as a State Park.
Another exploration this week was of Stone Mountain State Park where I climbed up a gorgeous, leaf-ridden trail to get to Chestnut Knob Overlook. Along the way, more dead trees
and moss.
One notable part of the hike was the not-normally-notable wooded flat area I hiked through that brought back my own flashbacks to this weeks running movie and the only wonderful thing about it...
Don't judge me...horror movies and subtitled movies are the BEST exercise flicks...lots of running or dialogue that you don't have to hear to understand. That said, possibly the best sort of running movie is the one where you get subtitled chase scenes and enough nasty, gratuitous violence that it keeps some part of your brain's adrenaline center hooked on Mel Gibson's gore fetish - meaning this of course.
The week started with a family hike at Warren Wilson College - new trail for me...the Dam Pasture Trail. Midweek a fella who has lived in the area for quite a while taught me how to trespass properly. Turns out WWC used to own this property a while back...now, If I'd ever owned a waterfall like this
I would never give it up. But then, I'm not an entity, I'm a me. The climb in was this fantastic chute of wet rocks...and climbing rocks is one of my favorite things to do...right evilpirate007?
I also like moss, lichen and such.
Before hitting this particular trail, I had the opportunity to go through chintzville and glimpse my very first view of Chimney Rock!!!! This is where 2-time Oscar winner-to-be DDL filmed a great cliff sequence. I promise better pictures once it is fully open as a State Park.
Another exploration this week was of Stone Mountain State Park where I climbed up a gorgeous, leaf-ridden trail to get to Chestnut Knob Overlook. Along the way, more dead trees
and moss.
One notable part of the hike was the not-normally-notable wooded flat area I hiked through that brought back my own flashbacks to this weeks running movie and the only wonderful thing about it...
Don't judge me...horror movies and subtitled movies are the BEST exercise flicks...lots of running or dialogue that you don't have to hear to understand. That said, possibly the best sort of running movie is the one where you get subtitled chase scenes and enough nasty, gratuitous violence that it keeps some part of your brain's adrenaline center hooked on Mel Gibson's gore fetish - meaning this of course.
