The photos below shows the changes to the trail from May to December, with a May shot directly above the December photo.
A somewhat hard-core guide to a random selection of the Commonwealth's lesser known hiking trails, with some gear reviews and lightweight backpacking info thrown in, by a central Virginia based hiker, backpacker, bushwhacker, explorer, Scoutmaster-emeritis, GPS data addict, and Appalachian Trail maintainer.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Back on the Brown Mountain Trail, 8 Months after the Fire
I led a hike the first weekend in December on Shenandoah National Park's Brown Mountain Trail, taking scouts from my troop on the trail. It is really hard to keep up with young scouts on the prowl for rocks to climb, so I did not get the number of comparison photos I had hoped to obtain, showing May and December views from the same perspective. But I did get some new photos, which are copied below. Overall, the landscape had changed dramatically from when I last hiked the trail in May. There was no "burn smell" at all! The forest is clearly healing.
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It seems like you people had an adventurous time there at black mountain.But 8 months are too much!!How did you people spend those 8 months.
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