Mount Mitchell State Park - Mount Mitchell summit in the background
The Mount Mitchell State Park offices
Mount Mitchell State Park - Getting ready to head up to the summit - snack bar on the right.
Mount Mitchell State Park - The trail to the summit on the left and gift shop on the right.
Mount Mitchell Summit Trail
Balsam Nature Trail
Mount Mitchell summit - heading up to the observation deck...the entrance road and Clingmans Peak are visible
Mount Mitchell summit - Elisha Mitchell's grave
Mount Mitchell summit - Looking at Clingmans Dome (left of center) from Mount Mitchell
Mount Mitchell summit - The map and marker at the summit
Mount Mitchell summit - Survey marker at the summit
Mount Mitchell summit - Looking northeast towards Mount Craig
Mount Mitchell summit - View east from the summit
Mount Mitchell summit - Dr. Elisha Mitchell's gravesite
Mount Mitchell summit - Dr. Elisha Mitchell's grave and the observation platform
Mount Mitchell summit - Unfortunately the picture a fellow tourist took of the boys and I by this sign wasn't in the camera
Mount Mitchell summit - The platform from the trail
Mount Mitchell State Park - An unknown female backpacker resting and reading in the nice meeting room next to the restaurant
Mount Mitchell State Park - The boys waiting for peanut butter pie and cheesecake after dinner.
Old Mitchell Trail - The restaurant from the trail
Old Mitchell Trail - The boys trekking through the spruce-fir forest
Old Mitchell Trail - Nick checks out a trail blaze
Old Mitchell Trail - Views from the trail
Old Mitchell Trail - Views through the spruce and fraser fir
Old Mitchell Trail - Nice fern-covered spruce-fir trail
Old Mitchell Trail - The observation platform from the trail
Old Mitchell Trail - From the restaurant it is 1.4 miles to the summit
Old Mitchell Trail - Another of the restaurant
Old Mitchell Trail - Mount Mitchell's ridge
Old Mitchell Trail - Another of the observation platform
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - The trailhead at the Craggy Dome Parkway overlook
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Ascending through the Catawba Rhododendron tunnels
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - The boys enjoy an interesting beech or birch?
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Bee Balm, normally a favorite of hummingbirds
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Thomas checks out an interesting tree growing from the rocks
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Another mangled tree
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - A resourceful tree
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Trail scene
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Maybe a former cistern?
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Nick cruises through the tunnels
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Blueberries were abundant
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - View of Craggy Dome (right)
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Views from the trail through the Mountain Ash
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Rhodo in the foreground
Craggy Pinnacle Trail
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - To the left is the upper overlook and to the right is the lower overlook
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - The summit overlook - Visitor Center in view
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Summit views
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Summit views - the sign documents the rare plant life on this heath summit
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - View of Craggy Dome
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Aging rare plant sign at the summit
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Mr. T had a nice day
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - So did Nick
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Views of the Asheville reservior
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - The car back at the parking lot
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - Heading back down the trail - view of the observation area
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - unidentified
Craggy Pinnacle Trail - This was odd...somebody impaled this step into a rock for some reason
