Thursday, September 16, 2010

Chimney Rock Park,NC

The group of four, Doug, JoAnn, Sylvia, and Glenn made a trip today to "Chimney Rock Park". Located about 25 miles South West of Swannanoa, NC. We arrived at 11 am,take the elevator up.
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Story of how the family dreamed of making access easier.
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The view looking down to the parking lot.
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On Top.
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Doug & JoAnn. We are in this together.
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Looking at the town of Chimney Rock from the top. The walkways are part of a trail.
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An overlook to view the rock from above. We did not climb up there.
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The view of Lake Lure.
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Sylvia on top.
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We decided to take a "hike" to see the falls
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The trail is about 1 mile long but is considered a "Moderate" hike.
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About 45 minutes later we see the falls.
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Glenn & Sylvia.
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Doug rested at the table. JoAnn joined us.
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The water is from a spring on top, the flow is low because of a lack of rain this summer.
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We stopped at "Genny's" for a late lunch,early dinner. A Lunner as JoAnn would say.
The view from the table at lunner.
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Back at the RV we are all done. Sylvia hopes she can move tomorrow.

1 comment:

Chuck and Anneke's RV travels said...

That looks great, somehow we missed that on our tour of NC.

Thanks.