Pre-Season Philmont Training (Sat-Sun)

 

In the red is our trek on Saturday from Shining Rock down south on the Art Leob Trail to where it intersects with the Ivestor Gap Trail. We then take a hard east turn onto the Greasy Cove Trail. We stay on that trail until we intersect with the Bridge's Gap Trail at the head water of the Fork Pigeon River. We will camp in that area on Saturday night and Mr. Brown tells me we can go trout fishing. I'm bringing a pole and some fishing flies.

The next day is in purple--we leave camp early to hike out to our exit spot on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We will head back down south on Bridge's Camp Gap Trail until we run into the "Mountain to Sea Trail" and follow it in a generally west direction with a large gain in altitude--a great prep for Philmont. Finally we come out into the Graveyard Field at the Blue Ridge Parkway. I hope that is not an ominous location to end our 3 day trek.