Happy last day of February and Kind of Birthday to any Leap Year Day babies out there. After a foggy, misty Monday, it was a gorgeous sunny mid-70 degree day here in our neck of North Carolina. We headed out for a short hike with Cooper around some nature trails on the campus of the lovely Isothermal Community College in Forest City. We had noticed the trails on the helpful map along the Thermal Belt Rail Trail, which has signs for the college but doesn’t run alongside it.
Isothermal Community College also has campuses in Spindale (up the road from Forest City) and Columbus, North Carolina. It is named after the isothermal belt, an area in the foothills of Western North Carolina with significantly milder temperatures than its immediate neighboring area. The nearby Blue Ridge Mountains protect the region by breaking up weather fronts. Just another reason, in my opinion to love the Blue Ridge Mountains.
We did all of the yellow, some of the red, and then the dam pink trail.😂
This was the start of the. . .you guessed it, yellow route.
(Apologies for the scientific terminology.)
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