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<\/p>\nI made time to hike to High Rocks from Spivey Gap yesterday. The weather was beautiful. Actually, I got a little bit sunburned while standing out on the rock, getting a view of the mountains, and talking to a couple of southbound section hikers from the Winston-Salem area. I started to ask if they were brothers, but the question was indeed pointless, as they were almost mirror images of one another. “Frog’ and his brother (sorry, I am bad with names) took some photos from the overlook with their digital cameras, and may be sending some photos in to the website later on, I hope. Anyway, the fresh air and exercise was just what I needed.<\/p>\n
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Also, this week, there was a forest fire on the mountain near Johnson City, where I live. The entire valley was thick with smoke as Buffalo Mountain, and the ‘Dry Creek’ area burned. According to the newspaper, the Forest Service thought that the fire had been extinquished and sent everyone home, only to see the flames re-ignite and burn several more acres overnight. Apparently, the fire was started intentionally by someone on the trail that connects into the Buffalo Mountain Park trail system. Rat toured the area and took some photos. They can be seen here: http:\/\/www.guitar-antics.com\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=27<\/a><\/p>\n I made time to hike to High Rocks from Spivey Gap yesterday. The weather was beautiful. Actually, I got a little bit sunburned while standing out on the rock, getting a view of the mountains, and talking to a couple of southbound section hikers from the Winston-Salem area. I started to ask if they were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"fire](\"http:\/\/www.trailstealth.com\/images\/stories\/site_pics\/fire_damage_2.jpg\")
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