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Ol’ Fluff has for 10 years been a loyal, obedient, kindly pet, with no real faults except for his penchant to answer, now and again, to the call of the wild.

A Good Dog Comes Home

Kurt's family's dog Fluff, who disappeared on a hike back in November, has come home again! This is Kurt's column, published in the March/April issue of The Roanoker, Blue Ridge Country's sister magazine.
With strong rains only hours behind, the river far below the Mill Mountain overlook ran deep and muddy, but stayed within its banks. (Note the recently installed guide to area mountains at the overlook.)

A Blustery Roanoke Hike

On a rainy day we stayed close to home, and started out carrying umbrellas along the greenway beside the swollen, Werther's-colored Roanoke River as it sped along beside us, fed by small streams rushing into it with heavy rains of the night before.
Remains of the old swimming pool along the stream below the former Camp Kewanzee.

Greatest Hiker, Worst ‘Shwacker

We picked this pretty-easy section of Appalachian Trail, in order to do some poking around at the former site of Camp Kewanzee, which was operated from 1926 to 1950, and had its 500-acre territory shrunk in 1939 when the parkway people came along.
Pretty day, pretty sign, pretty girl.

Spring Tease: Sinking Creek Mountain

If it's a beautiful, tease-of-spring day, it's an especially beautiful tease-of-spring day on the Great Trail, and even more especially with The Greatest Day Hiker.
On a warm February day there was still plenty of ice at Apple Orchard Falls.

Apple Orchard Falls, Frozen

Some Valentine's Day anniversaries of our first weekly hike (Feb. 14, 2004) are better than others. On this, our eighth return to the scene of the original crime, the day was warm enough to walk with two layers and no gloves or ear cover.
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