Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday 5th January, 2013

We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am

Last week was quite cool, but not windy and it did not rain on our hike for a change. The sky was overcast and there was some mist on the high ground, but everyone needed extra exercise, it being a post Christmas feast day hike, so we headed for Mt. Pocahontas and the George Lechner trail.  This route starts on the High Road with quite level walking along the road to start with, but leaving the road the climbing starts, gently at first then steeper.  There was surprisingly  little snow about and we only reached the snow line at the lunchspot. We were lucky the mist had cleared as we hiked and we had good views of Gillies Bay and of Zant Road below us.  

We may no be quite so lucky with the weather this coming Saturday as the forecast predicts more mild damp days ahead.

JD.    

Lunch at the snow line on Pocahontas Mountain overlooking Gillies Bay.