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the label here is incorrect. this is the intersection of east cowpen and panther creek i think. hickory ridge trail does not intersect panther creek trail.
The Walasi-yi Center was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s (completed 1937) and originally used as an inn and restaurant for the few brave souls who ventured this far into the wilderness.
Today the center is hiker’s paradise, here novice through trail hikers frequently stop and repack.
They unload items they now feel are useless weight and spend the extra money to but gear that shave valuable ounces off the total.
You need a strong will not to come out with some type of high tech backpacking gear so bring your wallet.
The elevation at Neels Gap is 3,109 feet and the elevation atop Blood Mountain is 4,461 feet, so the ascent up Blood Mountain is quite steep, especially the last mile, gaining most of those 1350 feet.
Wayah Bald rises to 5342 feet, named wolf, wa ya for the wolves that once lived on its slopes. Wayah Gap was called Atahita, "Where They Shouted." All of Wayah was known to the Cherokee: their trails crossed it, their stories refer to it, their hunters used it, and their Middle Towns stood within sight of its distinctive shape on the skyline to the west. More than 11,000 years ago, hunters camped near the springs on its crest, leaving spear points behind.
Wayah, like numerous other mountains in the Southern Appalachians, had a bald near its crest. These resemble the open spaces that the Cherokee kept cleared near their villages to attract game. Their legends say that the nunnehi, the immortal spirit beings, kept these balds cleared on the high peaks so that the eagles could catch rabbits. Scientists have no explanation for the existence of the balds, but over the past 200 years, since the Cherokee Removal, and with the closing of open range and the suppression of fire, the balds have begun to grow over.
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the label here is incorrect. this is the intersection of east cowpen and panther creek i think. hickory ridge trail does not intersect panther creek trail.
These pines look like the same type of spruce pines abundant in the west half of the US. Interesting.
The Walasi-yi Center was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s (completed 1937) and originally used as an inn and restaurant for the few brave souls who ventured this far into the wilderness.
Today the center is hiker’s paradise, here novice through trail hikers frequently stop and repack.
They unload items they now feel are useless weight and spend the extra money to but gear that shave valuable ounces off the total.
You need a strong will not to come out with some type of high tech backpacking gear so bring your wallet.
The elevation at Neels Gap is 3,109 feet and the elevation atop Blood Mountain is 4,461 feet, so the ascent up Blood Mountain is quite steep, especially the last mile, gaining most of those 1350 feet.
Wayah Bald rises to 5342 feet, named wolf, wa ya for the wolves that once lived on its slopes. Wayah Gap was called Atahita, "Where They Shouted." All of Wayah was known to the Cherokee: their trails crossed it, their stories refer to it, their hunters used it, and their Middle Towns stood within sight of its distinctive shape on the skyline to the west. More than 11,000 years ago, hunters camped near the springs on its crest, leaving spear points behind.
Wayah, like numerous other mountains in the Southern Appalachians, had a bald near its crest. These resemble the open spaces that the Cherokee kept cleared near their villages to attract game. Their legends say that the nunnehi, the immortal spirit beings, kept these balds cleared on the high peaks so that the eagles could catch rabbits. Scientists have no explanation for the existence of the balds, but over the past 200 years, since the Cherokee Removal, and with the closing of open range and the suppression of fire, the balds have begun to grow over.