Despite going to the Boone / Blowing Rock area every year for the past few years, we were pretty hesitant this year. With face masks and caution, we ventured up for ~12 days and braved the crowds. With significant rain in the forecast starting at Day 4, we decided to liven it up by shooting a lot of video and trying to document what a weird year of hiking it was. Enjoy!
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Hey all! For anyone interested in some Blue Ridge hiking guidance, here are all of the hikes Rob and I did on our annual October Blue Ridge trip this year, ordered chronologically and labeled with our distance and elevation gain. These differ a little bit from the published info (we sometimes combined trails and extended them).
We accomplished a pretty large increase in our hiking distance this year: 79.5mi, up from 55.4mi. I don’t know if my poor aching IT bands could take much more, but it didn’t feel all that crazy!
- Sam Knob (2.5mi, 557ft)
- Cat Gap Loop to John Rock (6.2mi, 1154ft)
- Grassy Creek Falls (1.8mi, 400ft)
- Crabtree Falls Loop (2.6mi, 577ft)
- Trout Lake Carriage (3.3mi, 300ft)
- Rich Mountain Carriage / Deer Park Loop (5.3mi, 756ft)
- Cascades / Tompkins (2.3mi, 272ft)
- Rough Ridge (1.5mi, 362ft)
- Bass Lake Loop (1mi, 20ft)
- Black Ridge Loop (3mi, 574ft)
- Fisher Peak Loop (2.2mi, 233ft)
- Bass Lake Loop Extended (2.8mi, 170ft)
- Price Lake Loop (2.2mi, 72ft)
- Elk Knob Summit (4mi, 971ft)
- Green Knob Loop (2mi, 515ft)
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Blue Ridge 2017 Hikes
We hiked a lot this year in the mountains! I figured I’d throw together a quick list of the hikes with some links to the trail maps and reviews. I’d recommend all of them, but details can be found in the previous blog post thingy.
- Day 1:
- Fryingpan Mountain Lookout (1.5mi out/back, 357ft)
- Triple Falls (2.3mi loop, 450ft)
- Devil’s Courthouse (0.9mi out/back, 275ft)
- Day 2:
- Graveyard Fields (3.0mi loop, 423ft)
- Craggy Pinnacle (0.9mi out/back, 272ft)
- Mount Mitchell Summit (0.4mi out/back, 88ft)
- Balsam Nature (0.8mi loop, 118ft)
- Day 3:
- Trout Lake Loop (1.2mi loop, 85ft)
- Day 4:
- Flat Top Mountain (5.1mi out/back, 629ft)
- Rough Ridge (0.8mi out/back, 268ft)
- Day 5:
- Jumpinoff Rocks (1.0mi out/back, 278ft)
- Cascades (0.7mi loop, 141ft)
- Day 6:
- Flat Rock (0.7mi loop, 147ft)
- Beacon Heights (0.6mi out/back, 150ft)
- Linn Cove Viaduct (0.8mi out/back, 124ft)
- Bass Lake / The Maze (3.8mi loop, 295ft)
- Day 7
- Green Knob (2.2mi loop, 613ft)
- Day 8
- Rough Ridge (0.8mi out/back, 268ft)
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