Photos of Fort Hill and Arc of Appalachia November 7, 2015 and January 17, 2016

Baker Fork at Fort Hill.

Beech enjoying the morning sun.

Fort Hill, November 7, 2015

 

It's a triple arch (#3 is just a dot above #2)

Every trail should look like this all year.

This tree still had its Halloween mask on.

'3 Sisters' sailing through the Arc of Appalachia on the right, 'Battleship Rock' makes its own way on the left.

Arc of Appalachia, November 7, 2015

I was trying to get the shadows of trees on the wall beyond the water.

My requisite reflection pic.

 The four pics above were taken on the Etawah Woods and the Valley of the Ancients trails.  The third trail that I hiked is called Big Beech Loop so that is what I took pictures of.  According to Arc of Appalachia's newsletter there are eighteen beech with a circumference of more than nine feet and four that are taller than 100 feet.  That is big for beech as they have a nasty habit of shrinking by dropping limbs.

Kamelands 1-17-16

To get to the Kamelands Loop you must park by an old barn and walk through an old cattle tunnel under US 50

A young and very dense hemlock grove

The canopy of the young, dense hemlock grove

The trail to Rocky Fork Creek excludes the horizontally challenged

Rocky Fork Creek

A rock arch

A pond near the beginning of the Kamelands Loop