Warren Wilson College Trails, Swannanoa

Date	Distance	Time	Elevation Gain	Average Moving Time	Year to Date Miles
11/21/2024	3.4 miles	1 hour 42 minutes	158'	2.1	740.3 miles

Parking: 

• Across the street from Berea Baptist Church, Riceville Rd.

Map:

• Gaia GPS app

Directions:

• Misc trails

I'm back home from my trip to New Mexico. I caught a cold on my last day of the New Mexico trip and my foot is still sore, but I wanted to get out for a hike. Glen and Krumm were happy to have me back on the trail. We hiked at Warren Wilson College, where Glen has been going recently to get his regular hiking in since the MST is closed. The college (and rogue trail maintainers) have been making a lot of progress on the trails there. We did come to a couple of areas where we had to turn around because the trail hasn't been cleared yet and the blowdowns are massive. We let Krumm go for a swim. He was shivering afterwards, but happy. Hopefully the water is safe - I checked a map and the creek feeds into the Swannanoa River but is upstream of it.

So much ugly debris - piles of trees (and mud) that went down the river and piled up along the shore.