September 2012

Cold day and short time calls for a short hike, and when it can be both nearby and new, we figure we are in for a good hiking day.

Not-so-new instance of a Falls Ridge Nature Preserve hike seeming way shorter than its stated distance (cf Grassy Hill near Rocky Mount and Bottom Creek Gorge near Bent Mountain). Is it maybe chronic with The Nature Conservancy to overstate trail dis

This great walk seems to come up for us around New Year's and on July 4, which got me to wondering how many times, since Valentine's Day 2004 when we began the hiking oddity, we've done it.

We set out at just after noon from the snowy Dragon's Tooth Parking Lot, about which The Greatest Day Hiker Of Them All had also been a better predictor than I, as her bet was there'd be three cars in the lot and mine was six. There were two.