pisgah national forest

“I would appreciate any tips on a making a three day backpacking trip to Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina interesting. If you have any good trails in mind or knobs to visit, please respond.

Thanks,
three college guys looking to rough it”

“"Roughing it" means NO beer!

Don't do it, dood!”

“Shining Rock Wilderness.”

“What wd said. Lots of ways to get up to Shining Rock and back down without retracing your steps. All great hikes. Get the TI map and pick some routes - you can't go wrong.”

“Lost Cove would be a nice area also - could even go swiming (GRIN)”

“come into our realm, ask us for trip advice, and not invite any of us!!!

Have a great time...the Pisgah is mighty cool.”

“thanks for the good ideas for a pisgah trip. shiny rock looks like a def. now and quite possibly lost cove.

p.s. we're not roughing that tough (beeeer)”

“you guys would get along great with binks,,he never bp's without a 12 pack....”

“The Art Loeb Trail is a great one! South of the Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP) it's nice this time of year, and there's 2 shelters, a loop can be magaged here easy enough. But it's a serious hump up to the BRP to the ridgeline, if you were to do the whole 34 mile ALT. From Sam's Knob parking lot, ya can do a great loop that includes Shining Rock. Quite flat to boot (fer totin' plenty of beer!). Another great loop is outa Camp Daniel Boone (BSA) up NC 215. There's a public parking area just after the lake and main camp center. Caretaker's name is Eddie, wonderful feller, make dang shore you boys don't fark up any of CDB!! Anyway it's a 6 mile ascent to Shining Rock, then it's about 3-4 miles to the base of Cold Mtn, cool route with some very narrow ridgeline. Then it's 6 miles back down to CDB, nice loop. Shining Rock themselves are sweet, take flashlights, as if you climb from the top down toward the left ya can spelunk through a rock maze down in the darkness. If one'a ya is heavy, don't do it. Oh, if ya can do your hike near a full moon, all the better. Hence the name Shining Rock.

Another detail, if ya go on a busy weekend, don't camp directly in Shining Rock Gap, as you'll be fined. I'll look and see whut topo's you'll need. If something suites your fancy, lemme know.”