You know it's going to be a good day on the trail when the welcoming committee meets you in the parking lot. This is the long way up to the Lookout Tower. From the building next to the lake you can see the tower. Tried to show samples of flowers and quartz along the trail.
11:55 some of the boardwalks
14:30 Trail is next to creek
18:10 cross creek
20:20 more boardwalk
24:08 interesting bolders along trail
26:45 Deer along trail
38:34 quick view of milky quartz along trail
40:00 more quartz
42:40 you can see some of the altitude gain
45:38 quartz vein in rock
52:20 flowers
54:30 rhododendrons
58:56 big quartz
59:25 rhododendrons
1:01:00 rock ledge and first view
1:03:05 more quartz
1:06:46 rhododendrons
1:09:12 quick view out to horizon
1:10:00 rhododendrons
1:11:00 rhododendrons
1:12:00 quarts veins in granite
1:13:55 View to the horzin
1:18:11 arrive at trail merge
1:19:10 first view of tower
1:20:08 steps to top of tower
1:20:34 first view from top of tower
1:20:43 pilot Mountain and Sauratown Mountain
1:21:10 zoom in on Winston
1:21:52 lake where the hike started
1:22:34 mountains on the horizon are in Virginia
1:24:30 walking around base of tower
29 май 2024
