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Kurt’s Hikes

CURRENT Kurt’s Hikes

Overnighters and Day Hikers

Apple Orchard Falls-AT-Cornelius Creek trails loop. 7.2; Cornelius Creek Trail to Forest Road and back. 4.6

She’s Friendly. And She’s Tired

Appalachian Trail to McAfee Knob and back (FR on the way down) 7.8 miles

Getting Out the Umbrellas

Sharp Top Mountain ascent and descent; Harkening Hill partial ascent and descent. About 5 miles

Mill Mountain Quick Walk

The catch-at-the-end-of-the-weekend was the nearby, convenient, easy, pretty Mill Mountain Star Trail, which we can reach in 10 minutes and climb in about 45.

Flat Top, Flat Beach, Flat Greenway

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Eric, Matthew and Aden at lunch stop just above Apple Orchard Falls.

Overnighters and Day Hikers

Apple Orchard Falls-AT-Cornelius Creek trails loop. 7.2; Cornelius Creek Trail to Forest Road and back. 4.6
Kurt, Gail, Cookie and a lot of other beings on McAfee Knob, September 9, 2013.

She’s Friendly. And She’s Tired

Appalachian Trail to McAfee Knob and back (FR on the way down) 7.8 miles
Looking out over Abbott Lake onto Sharp Top from inside the Peaks of Otter Lodge Restaurant.

Getting Out the Umbrellas

Sharp Top Mountain ascent and descent; Harkening Hill partial ascent and descent. About 5 miles

Mill Mountain Quick Walk

The catch-at-the-end-of-the-weekend was the nearby, convenient, easy, pretty Mill Mountain Star Trail, which we can reach in 10 minutes and climb in about 45.
Ben and Gail on one of the three ocean-facing porches at Seascape, the house at Garden City Beach, S.C. 8/10-8/17, 2013

Flat Top, Flat Beach, Flat Greenway

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