We tried to backpack the weekend of August 30, 2014, but it was a horrible failure. First, we drove the Blue Ridge Parkway towards Brevard, NC, with plans to backpack at Shining Rock Wilderness. When we reached the trailhead near Black Balsam Knob, however, it was a…
I was happy in the immediate presence of nature in its most staggering grandeur, in living intimately with something so splendidly immense that all life seemed trivial in its presence. - Robert Marshall Alaska Wilderness