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Up one levelDanny Bernstein contributes articles to newspapers and magazines about hiking and conservation.
Bryant tragedy shouldn’t keep WNC hikers from using their favorite trails
Irene and Jack Bryant were a long-married hiking couple, still going into the woods in their 80s. According to the coverage in the Asheville Citizen-Times, the Bryants hiked all over the world, including Pisgah National Forest.
You are here!
You can’t hike with your dog in the Smokies. You can’t build a wood fire in the Shining Rock Wilderness. When you’re in DuPont State Forest, mountain bikes whiz past you. Why is each place so different and who makes the rules anyway?
Across North Carolina
In this year’s “Best of WNC” poll, Mountain Xpress readers voted the Blue Ridge Parkway the region’s best place to hike.
Searching for Art Loeb
It is proposed that a scenic foot trail to be known as the “Arthur J. Loeb Trail” be established in the Pisgah Ranger District of the National Forest in N.C. beginning at U.S. Highway 276 and 64 immediately south ... to the summit of Cold Mountain (elevation 6,030 feet) in the Shining Rock Wild Area.
Badges of Honor
Awhile back, I started recording the trails I've hiked in the Smokies using a spreadsheet.
Secret in the Smokies
Little Cataloochee Baptist Church sits on a ridge top in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, a small white structure, built in 1889, with a steeple and cobblestone steps.
The Trails of Winter
When I moved to Asheville from New Jersey, I brought all of my winter-hiking gear with me, including crampons, snowshoes, cross-country skis, a down jacket and an ice ax.