Blue Ridge Parkway Leaf Peeping

The color is starting to pop along the Blue Ridge Parkway north of Asheville. It was a lovely day for peeping — warm and spring-like. Certain ridges have pops of color on the southwest side, while the northern side stays green for contrast. The colorful swaths look like someone spilled gigantic Fruity Pebbles down the hill.

Walking Asheville – Mountain To Sea Trail

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Come walk along with us in this seventh installment of Walking Asheville as we walk from the Folk Art Center south and back along the Mountain To Sea (MST) trail. This was going to be a two part walk but our gopro flaked out and we lost an hour of the walk in the middle.

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Walking Asheville – Haw Creek to the Parkway!

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Come walk along with us in this sixth installment of Walking Asheville as we walk through the Northern part of the Haw Creek neighborhood, up the Maple Road trail to the Blue Ridge Parkway and along the Mountain To Sea trail (MST) to the overlook above the Haw Creek Overlook.

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Letter Home 13

This letter is chock full of mushroomy goodness though we aren’t going to list all the species we found. Perhaps in another video.

As usual there are timecode links to specific parts of the video and web links to places we visited.

The the end for the actual video

Elkins WV
Revelle’s Campground http://www.revelles.com/CMS/
Fruity Barrel Cactus 0:31 https://dragonseye.com/blog/2019/08/F…
Seneca rocks 1:33 https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mnf/r…
Sites Homestead 2:01 https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mnf/r…
Mylius Trail 2:09 https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/reg…

Charlottesville VA
Mushrooms around the Charlottesville KOA 2:49 https://koa.com/campgrounds/charlotte…
First mushroom spore print 3:07
Riverview Park 3:57 https://www.charlottesville.org/depar…
Kemper Park 4:05 https://www.monticello.org/visit/the-…
Sunspots Studios in Staunton 4:17 https://www.sunspots.com/
Trinity Episcopal Church 4:37 https://trinitystaunton.org/
Monticello! 4:53 https://dragonseye.com/blog/2019/08/T…
Skyline Drive 6:08 https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisi…

Fancy Gap VA
Fancy Gap Cabins 6:28 https://fancygapcabinsandcampground.c…
Blue Ridge Music Center (mushrooms) 6:51 http://www.blueridgemusiccenter.org/
Hot Lips! 7:01
Cumberland Knob hiking 9:00 https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisi…

Asheville NC
Mushrooms! 10:00
Rutledge Park train 10:15
Treehouse & bears! 10:38

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