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On The Road – Jerry – Blue Ridge Mountains, Fall 2020

by WaterGirl|  November 10, 20205:00 am| 14 Comments

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Jerry

The family and I did another Blue Ridge Mountains run last week. We got there just as the remnants of Hurricane Delta were blowing through the area and just before peak leaf season, but still got a psychedelic eyeful up there in the Beech Mountain/Banner Elk/Grandfather Mountain, NC area.

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Beech Mountain, NC

The fall colors on Beech Mountain

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Beech Mountain, NC

Our cabin up on Beech Mountain. We would normally wake up to a bunch of deer in the yard.

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Beech Mountain, NC

Like these nice fellers.

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Blue Ridge Mountains, NC

Had to get to the top of the mountain in order to see the sky! Dang ol’ mountains getting in the way of my sky views. This is somewhere along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Price Lake, NC

The fog rolling onto Price Lake. This is in the Julian Price park area right off of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The nearest town would be Blowing Rock.

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Upper Creek Falls, NC

This is the upper part of Upper Creek Falls. The hike to the falls wasn’t so bad, but the return trip was tough.

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Little Wilson Creek Falls, NC

The wife wanted to have a nice wilderness picnic somewhere off the beaten path, and bow howdy, did she ever get us off the beaten path. I’m still not sure how we got on this lonely dirt road in the Blowing Rock area, but I’m glad we did.

On The Road - Jerry - Blue Ridge Mountains, Fall 2020
Somewhere on a lonely national forest road deep in the NC mountains

My daughter called this “ominous.” She wasn’t wrong. This is where folk horror tales start.

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  1. 1.

    raven

    November 10, 2020 at 5:29 am

    We were a bit west of there last week too!

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    SiubhanDuinne

    November 10, 2020 at 5:36 am

    Haven’t done a Blue Ridge Parkway drive in three or four years now, but I’ve always found it spectacular. Your photos brought back some nice memories.

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    p.a.

    November 10, 2020 at 7:04 am

    Sweet. Tks.

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    DonL140

    November 10, 2020 at 7:16 am

    Nice photos, but, damn, deer? Here in Texas, we don’t need to see anymore stinkin’ deer! Squirrels just wreck your bird feeder. Deer wreck everything. They eat your flowers, and destroy any garden that doesn’t have a fence around it so it looks like Stalag 17, minus guard towers. But don’t shoot Bambi’s mother!

    The only thing deer are good for is sausage.

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    Sab

    November 10, 2020 at 7:34 am

    @DonL140: If you called it a squirrel feeder like we do, it would help you adjust your attitude.// It turns out a lot of the flower damage we blamed on the deer was actually the woodchuck.

    Those photos are lovely. So is the cabin.

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    arrieve

    November 10, 2020 at 8:09 am

    I love the ominous picture, which looks like a walk I’d love to take.

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    susanna

    November 10, 2020 at 9:18 am

    Good pictures.  I’ve never been to that area of the country, but do a fair amount of hiking.  Looks lovely here and I especially appreciated the ominous last picture and the lake with ominous? fog rolling in, or out?  Thank you!

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    JanieM

    November 10, 2020 at 10:53 am

    Lovely. The panorama of the Blue Ridge is beautiful — I’ve driven through there a couple of times in my life, but long, long ago. The forest shots are invitations to hike onward, ominous or otherwise. :-)

    It looks like rugged country for hiking, actually.

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    JustRuss

    November 10, 2020 at 11:25 am

    Lovely pics.  Hope to get to that part of the country some day.

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    stinger

    November 10, 2020 at 11:28 am

    Ominous? Not to me. I’d build my house right there where your camera is so I could look at that view always. Or else move into the cabin in the first couple of shots. Gorgeous.

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    Eunicecycle

    November 10, 2020 at 12:28 pm

    We love the Blue Ridge Parkway! We lucked one year into being there at peak leaf color, and it was so awe-inspiring, it actually brought tears to my eyes. Your beautiful pictures are a wonderful reminder!

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    J R in WV

    November 10, 2020 at 2:08 pm

    Very rugged country for the east. Not  compared to the 14teeners out west with bare rock, but still rough hiking.

    We spent a week in Ashville in the before time and drove a lot on the Blue Ridge Parkway and country roads around there. Big fun to drive that road once the tourism drops off in the late fall.

    Great small craft museum, took hours as we’re into that stuff. Grew up in mountain country, different because of the coal industry, but similar in many ways, esp the people.

    Thanks for sharing — that buck on the right is really something!

  13. 13.

    way2blue

    November 10, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    Beautiful photos.  Thanks!  I’ve never visited this part of North Carolina (only the Outer Banks for a wedding), but hope to some day…  What a treasure to have a cabin there.

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    Tehanu

    November 10, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Beautiful. Thank you.

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