It's rather hard to capture hard ascent and descent in photos...but take my word for it, this was a tough uphill section en route to the top of Grandfather Mountain near Linville, NC.
My nephews and their parents were visiting from Wisconsin, so I had to come up with something epic that would stick in the brain boxes of those kids. I'm one to push outdoor activity, so we set out as a family unit up Profile Trail and then onto another climb to the east, which got us up and over the top.
That's David in the lead, then Joe (soon headed to Madison as a college freshman) and old master man pulling up the rear. I told them to pump a fist as the photo was taken, to demonstrate victory over what the mountain had to throw at us.
These boys don't waste a lot of words...they just work hard, clean the sections, and chuckle like Bevis and Butthead. That's OK because it's more important to get effort into one's legs instead of pumping up the jaw muscle.
One difficult…
My nephews and their parents were visiting from Wisconsin, so I had to come up with something epic that would stick in the brain boxes of those kids. I'm one to push outdoor activity, so we set out as a family unit up Profile Trail and then onto another climb to the east, which got us up and over the top.
That's David in the lead, then Joe (soon headed to Madison as a college freshman) and old master man pulling up the rear. I told them to pump a fist as the photo was taken, to demonstrate victory over what the mountain had to throw at us.
These boys don't waste a lot of words...they just work hard, clean the sections, and chuckle like Bevis and Butthead. That's OK because it's more important to get effort into one's legs instead of pumping up the jaw muscle.
One difficult…