What follows are links to articles I wrote for Ram’s Gate Winery. I’ve included excerpts from each, but if you want to read the entire article, you’ll have to go to the Ram’s Gate Winery Blog to do so. They have several other great articles that I didn’t write, so I hope you spend some…
I’ve got a great friend who challenged me to get in three hikes in one week. This hike at Sweetwater Creek State Park concludes the challenge and now she owes me dinner in Vancouver, Washington in August. The building standing in ruins is the New Manchester Manufacturing Company (originally the Sweetwater Manufacturing Company) and the…
Smithgall Woods State Park is an interesting mix of hemlocks, mountain laurels, pines, hardwoods, bogs, trout streams, and Caution Bees. Sadly I saw no live bears despite the promise given all the warning signs. What a tease. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful place and you should definitely visit at least once. The Caution Bees reminded me…
According to one source, this park is so named because a Cherokee family was being pursued by a war party, and after hiding his family, the father led the pursuers away. After being surrounded by the party the father threw himself from a cliff and onto the granite rocks below. The war party then went…
Yesterday I drove to Dockery Lake to hike the long way to Preachers Rock. 11.5 miles to the top and back by my GPS, though I’m starting to wonder if it’s miscalibrated. It’s strange to me that this has a Cleveland address as I feel like it should be Dahlonega or Suches instead. But I…
These pictures are from my sunrise hike on Currahee Mountain. The rest are just in the order in which I took them. This is the famous trail from the training episodes of the Band of Brothers miniseries that followed Easy Company in World War II. Currahee was the training camp for the 506th Parachute Infantry…