[at-l] Night Hike was How's yours?

[sloetoe at yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

The boys and I did the same thing -- we left the top of Abraham
about an hour before sunset, and reached Stark Overlook at 9:30
or 10:00pm. Coming upon "the oldest chairlift on the east coast"
(or something like that) was kind of surreal -- it is this
cantilevered gantry sort of thing that looked like some sort of
Erector-set dinosaur in the moonless night. Wuz wayyyyyy cool.
But ridgetops at night are like that, with them leetle lights a
twinklin' down below and all that, leetle lights a'twinklin' up
above and all that......

My favorite night hikes ALWAYS involve them leetle lights, and
usually without leaves on the trees. Recent ones include:
LT: Lincoln Ridge to Stark's Nest
AT: _______'s Bald descending into Wesser (NOC, hwy,
riversounds)
AT: Shuckstack Mtn. descending to Fontana Dam (WOW! Lite Dam!)
AT: "Sawteeth" area north of Charlie's Bunion, Cherokee lit up
on one side, Gatlinburg (etc) lit up on the other
AT: I'd sure like to try Grayson Highlands-> Buzzard Rock
without cloud, rain, ice, and wind....
AT: Any of the Trail in GA in winter....
AT: Any of the Trail from Wesser south winter.....
AT: Unaka south to Erwin/Nolichucky in winter..... so kewl.... 

Hmmmmm. Seems to be a pattern....

--- rcli4@comcast.net wrote:

> Liteshoe and I night hiked in Vermont.  We wanted to slack
> over Abraham, and Ellen to Appalachian Gap.  In order to make
> it work we had to hike about six miles after dark.  I would
> have walked off a cliff if Jan hadn't been leading the way. 
> Watching car lights winding down roads was pretty neat.  The
> city lights below twinkeled like stars.  I know it is not a
> wilderness thing but with out the lights below it would have
> been walking around in the dark. I really enjoyed it.
> 
> Clyde