Michael Sprague near Asheville, North Carolina

Some friends from the congregation and I, seven of us total, drove a little over two hours to hike in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest which is contained in the Nantahala National Forest. There are trees as old as 450 years there. It is one of the very few remaining tracts of virgin hardwood in the Appalachians. The large old trees are tulip-poplars, some with a circumference greater than 20 feet and over 100 feet tall.

View all my photos from the hike.

View information on the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. (1.4 mb pdf file)