Community Trips
A hike at Mount Mitchell State Park, highest summit of the Appalachian Mountains. Writeup at Two-Heel Drive.
On the way back from Cincinnati, stopped at Mount Mitchell for a hike in the morning. Trail was pretty much empty, though there were a lot of folks in suits at the visitor's center.
Actually started and Finished at the Mt Mitchell trail head in the Black Mountain Campground. Lost the data for the first 2.3 miles to our campsite by Higgins Bald. Camped on the BRP and Friday night. Hiked up to just before Higgins bald, set up camp then hiked to the summit with light packs
This track is the descent portion of a hike on the Mt. Mitchell trail....forgot to turn on GPS tracking for the ascent. We started at Black Mountain Campground and hiked the Mt. Mitchell Trail to the summit. On the return, we hiked the Mt. Mitchell trail until it intersected with the Higgans Bald trail which we followed until it looped back around to the lower portion of the Mt. Mitchell trail
Hiked from Black Mountain Campground up the Mt. Mitchel trail and looped around the Higgin's Bald trail. Nice small waterfall on Sefrock creek on Higgin's Bald trail. Nice camping area were we turned around just above 5000 feet. We left at 8:30 am from campground and were to the turn around at 10:30 am, we got back to the campground at 12:00.
This past weekend, we headed up to Mount Mitchell
to hike up to the highest point in North Carolina and the Eastern
United States. Sure, you can drive to the top, but that's no fun! We
left the Triangle early Saturday morning and drove to the campground at
the base of Mount Mitchell. We stayed at the Poplar group site at Briar
Bottom Campground, adjacent to Black Mountain Campground. After
checking in,...
We left the campground at 9am to hike
to the summit. The first part of the
trail is climbing switchbacks through laurel & rhododendron. It does have
some open expanses but no views. By 0.7 miles you have gone from 3000 to
3500 feet. After one mile the
rhododendron starts getting thick and close to the trail. It is a
moderately steep traverse to the southwest with a few switchbacks as you
climb. At 1.4 miles, 4200 feet you...
This was a good long hike. We started out by getting up around 5am and 29F. Had a good breakfast of biscuits and gravy(THANKS to Jerry H and Scott C). Hit the trail around 6:30am. Worked off the cold after a mile or so and hit a pretty good pace. The trail was full of great views, water crossings, snow, and ice. The top was great, but the wind had us heading...
