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Camping Pictures

Don — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:29:35 +0000

Tate charting out a course on the river.

Tate and Abby.

S’mores!

More camping pictures here.

French Broad River Festival 2008 Pictures

Don — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:26:10 +0000

Me and the girls

Photo by Madame M.

Cyclists and Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine. Photo by Madame M.

A shot of one small section of the campgrounds. Photo by Madame M.

Photo by Madame M.

Couple of long haired hippies that play in Johnny’s Inhaler. Photo by Madame M.

Sirina. Photo by Madame M.

Good french toast. Any time of day. Photo by Madame M

Johnny’s Inhaler. Photo by Sarah Kate.

Kid’s Parade.

Tate relaxing in the artist’s tent.

Art in the art tent. (go figure!)

Eclectic drum set.

Barbie with water on the brain.

Art van (dolay)

Hobo Abby.

Hobo Tate.

Trackside meal.

Funny faces.

Me and the girls

Courthouse Falls, Transylvania County, NC

Don — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:43:36 +0000

These 45-50′ high waterfalls were one of the most beautiful we have seen so far. Great deep swimming hole, and a ledge at the top of the falls to jump from.

Video Clips

I got some video clips of some guys jumping off the top of the waterfall. It gives you an idea of just how big these falls are:

It’s been hot this week.

Don — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:14:34 +0000

Looking forward to sweatshirt weather again soon.

Douglas Falls, Asheville, NC

Don — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:11:12 +0000

Looks like I am praying to the waterfall gods.

Tate through the waterfall.

More of Douglas Falls

Tall pic

Hiking in fall colors

Don — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:26:04 +0000

As promised, here are some pics from hiking this past weekend. We went up and over the Blue Ridge Parkway and came down on the other side of Pisgah Forest and stopped briefly at Looking Glass Falls. After that we took a little hike to a place called Moore’s Cove Falls – which is kinda cool because the falls flow over a ledge and you can walk around in the cavern behind the water.

Looking Glass Falls

Matt has a nice picture of downtown Asheville, which also looks very pretty. (Link)

Hiking Graveyard Fields to Upper Falls

Don — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:52:11 +0000

On Sunday we went to another set of waterfalls in the Graveyard Fields we hiked from the previous weekend.

Last weekend we visited the lower falls. This weekend we went to the upper falls. It was farther upstream so the paucity of water was much less – yet still beautiful.

The weather was a little cooler initially. There were icicles everywhere but the sun was passing over the top of us and quickly began melting them away.

Directions?

The falls were really pretty, but I don’t think these pictures truly capture it. The water volume was much less, but it meant there were more rocks for us to climb.

It was time for lunch. We found a large flat rock to sit on. The river ran under us while we ate. Pretty cool.

Scrappy ate some turkey scraps (no pun intended). We also celebrated with a thermos of piping hot cocoa. Scrappy tried walking around on the rocks but there were sheets of ice on the rocks. Just as I was taking the next picture (below) he began sliding down the river behind me and the girls started freaking out. That is why their mouths are dropped open and Abby looks so concerned.

Scrappy!

You can see the ice sheets (to the right-middle) Scrappy was sliding on when I took the previous picture.

Abby harvesting icicles. One of those sheets of ice Scrappy slid on is visible just to the right of Abby.

I love this picture.

Scrappy getting some air.

Heading back.

We stopped at the bottom of the valley for a quick snack and then headed up to the car.

Another (and longer) hike accomplished. Abby said once again, “I love hiking. We should do this on Thursdays and Fridays!”

Not sure what the means exactly but it sounds good.