Ooh la la, vacation Monday long run! We headed out this morning on an approx 14 mile loop run starting at the entrance of the North Carolina Arboretum, Hard Times Trail to Shut In Trail to Bent Creek Gap Road...
Does vacation start the Saturday after the last day of work or the Monday that you have off work? Either way, my vacation is off to a great start! We decided to take a longer run this morning. The weather was perfect. Started out with a light rain as we climbed up Hard Times Trail to the Shut In Trail. There we topped out in the clouds. On the way back down Bent Creek Gap Road, we had partly sunny skies and a nice breeze to keep us cool. I think I could do this everyday. It's so therapeutic!
We have lots of pictures to share with you of our run. We also made a video of the highlights, but we made one big mistake of not taking our GoPro camera and used our Nikon camera instead, so we're not very happy about how the video turned out. We tried You Tube's "stabilizer", and it's kind of psychedelic looking, but get's a little better after the first minute. We love the music we selected for it, so we decided to post it anyway! Pictures are after video...
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| Hard Times Trail |
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| Shut In Trail |
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| Over grown section of Shut In Trail |
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| Shut In Trail |
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| Beautiful ferns |
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| Right turn on to Bend Creek Gap Road |
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| Bent Creek Gap Road |
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| Right turn off of Bent Creek Gap Road onto Campground Connector Trail |
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| Camp Ground Connector Trail |
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| Lake Powhatan |
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| Campground Connector Trail puts us back onto Bent Creek Gap Road. This is one of many side trails that go back and forth off the Road |
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| Bent Creek Trail |
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| Bent Creek Trail |
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| Bent Creek Gap Road |
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| Last trail back to the parking area! |
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