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Hiking Schedule: Oct - Dec, 2021 1 Using the Schedule Hikes in the Schedule Are Graded According to Difficulty Using the Table Below Hiking Schedule: Oct - Dec, 2021 1 Using the Schedule Hikes in the schedule are graded according to difficulty using the table below. Consult the hike leader for a more specific appraisal. E Easy hike, 2-5 miles. Expect good trails, often old roads EM Easy to Moderate, 3-6 miles. Expect steeper trails and more hills M Moderate, 5-8 miles. Trails may be difficult walking in places MS Moderate to Strenuous. Expect longer hikes with more climbing, perhaps bushwacking S Strenuous. Expect long hikes and hill climbing with large elevation gains, bushwacking Other standard acronym's used in the hike descriptions are: HD Hiking Distance DD Driving Distance MRT Miles Round Trip NBATC Response to COVID-19 Please Do Not Join a NBATC Hike If You -or- Anyone in your Household -or- Someone You Recently Met has any Covid-19 Symptoms. Carpools are allowed if you have been fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and have met your waiting period (with the following Restrictions): Wear a face mask, do not use the middle seat, use full car ventilation. Hiking groups are limited to 10 participants. Maintain 6-foot distance between hikers in your group and/or when passing other hikers on the trail. Face masks may be needed in larger group situations when maintaining 6-feet distance is not possible. RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY There are certain risks that are inherent in any hike or other club activity. These include, but are not limited to, weather conditions, trail conditions, ticks, wildlife, plant and insect allergens, etc. Each NBATC member, guest, or non-member agrees to accept responsibility for his or her own safety. Adults who are accompanied by minors agree to accept responsibility for those minors. Hike leaders are responsible for hike organization, reasonable instruction and guidance, and proper documentation. Hike participants are responsible for following this reasonable guidance and instruction. By signing the hike sign-up form, each hike participant is affirming that he/she has read and understands these responsibilities. Before You Go If you are planning to go on a hike, please call the hike leader at least the evening before the hike. That's not only a courtesy to the hike leader, but also an aid to planning transportation to the trail head. Hiking in each season can require very different types and amounts of equipment, but food, water, and layered clothing are a minimum. If you have any doubt contact the hike leader for more information. NBATC Hike Meeting Places Other Hiking opportunies Madison Height Goodwill { Next to Lowe's at the Wednesday Work Hikes - We have work hikes almost River James Shopping Center on Business-29. Park in every Wednesday. If you are interested in a trail work the very front, close to the access road. during the week, please contact Eric Anderson in Mon- eta at 540-721-1994 ([email protected]) Boonsboro Shopping Center { On Boonsboro or Trudy Phillips in Lynchburg at 434-384-4870 Road. Meet on the Starbucks side of the shopping ([email protected]). center. Thursday Hikes - For easy-to-moderate hikes, Buena Vista Food Lion { On US 60 west of contact Herb Vreeland 434-385-1826. For moderate-to- downtown Buena Vista. Meet on the side of the strenuous hikes, contact Patricia Held at 540-586-1051 parking lot adjacent to US 60. ([email protected]). Lynchburg Kohl's { Off Wards Road, just before Friday Hikes - If Friday is a more convenient day the US 460. Park in front, far from the store. to go hiking, call Mary Jane Davis at 434-841-7630 Forest Square Shopping Center { On Rt 221 in or Laura Jones at 434-221-1797. Hike with the \Day Forest. Meet in front of the Post Office. Flowers." Waterlick Plaza { On Timberlake Road (Rt 460 Saturday Work Hikes - We have work hikes almost Business). Meet near Wells Fargo Bank. every Saturday. If you are interested, call Jason Hammer at 434-401-4204 for the meeting place and time. Hiking Schedule: Oct - Dec, 2021 2 Sun Oct 10 Hike #6390(E) Oct 2021 Rogers Ride Trail and Ice Cream HD:2 Sat Oct 02 Hike #6387(MS) Leader:Jordan Welborn, 434-209-4935 Foot Bridge to Fullers Rocks and Return on 1:30 PM Contact hike leader - Meet hike the A.T. HD:8 leader at Countywide Park: 670 Ewing Dr, Leader:Roger Park, 434-228-5036 Rustburg, VA (Local) 8:00 AM @ Boonsboro Shopping Center - Meet Jordan at Countywide Park (also called Meet other hikers at the Foot Bridge about Seneca Park) before we start our hike on Rogers 8:30 AM (DD:40 MRT, $3) Ride Trail. After our hike we will drive to "I We will start with a scenic walk along Rocky Row Scream You Scream" (located about 7-miles north Run, which is beautiful this time of year. A portion on Highway 29) to enjoy some delicious ice cream! of our hike includes 20 switchbacks during the climb Please call Jordan to join her hike. and is well worth the effort because of the amazing river and mountain views from Fullers Rocks. Sat Oct 16 Hike #6391(M) Please call the hike leader to join his hike and to let Reservoir Hollow Trail HD:6 him know where you will meet the group. Leader:Roger Park, 434-228-5036 8:00 AM @ Boonsboro Shopping Center - Sun Oct 03 Hike #6388(M) Caravan to Foot Bridge, arrive at 8:35 then Flat Top...BRP Trailhead to the Picnic Area drive to Buena Vista trailhead (DD:90 MRT, HD:5 $4) Leader:Eric Anderson, 540-721-1994 This hike will begin in Buena Vista. There are 6 8:30 AM @ Forest Square Shopping Center - small creek crossings (each way) and we will be Carpool to the Peaks Visitor Center to meet climbing a long hill up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Eric about 9 AM (DD:45 MRT, $3) We'll see many great Fall views of the surrounding We begin at the BRP Flat Top parking area, hike to mountains. Giant boulders await us at Indian Gap its 4000 foot peak and enjoy lunch with a view from on the BRP, where we will enjoy lunch before the rock outcropping. After lunch we continue traveling back down the trail to our cars. hiking as we descend to the picnic area trailhead. Recommend you bring hiking sticks for the creek The trail descends steadily for about 2 miles which crossings...Crocs if the crossings are running high. will include some rocky areas. Please call the hike $2 Fee if carpooling only from the Foot Bridge. leader to join his hike and let him know where you will meet the group. Sun Oct 17 Hike #6392(MS) Sprouts Run/Wilson Mountain Loop Hike Sat Oct 09 Hike #6389(M) HD:8 Holliday Lake State Park Loop HD:7 Leaders:Bret Boman, 434-841-0554; Lisa Leader:T. C. Harvey, 434-352-8763 Boman, 434-941-5218 9:30 AM @ Lynchburg Kohl's - Caravan to 8:00 AM @ Forest Square Shopping Center - meet TC at the Appomattox Kroger about Carpool to Peaks Visitor Center, arrive 8:40 10 AM. (DD:80 MRT, $4) then carpool to trailhead (DD:80 MRT, $4) Come out and enjoy this fairly level forest trail We can add to the carpool at the Peaks Visitor circling the lake through enjoyable rolling hills and Center (arriving about 8:40 AM) then drive to the scenery. We will cross over the rock-faced dam trailhead ($2 Carpool Fee "only" Peaks to walkway and enjoy looking at the lake from wooden trailhead). This loop hike in Jefferson National piers built into the lake. The creek crossing may Forest south of Cave Mountain Lake involves require hiking sticks. Leave from the Lynchburg multiple stream crossings through a very pretty meeting point located in the far front Kohl's valley and adds some great mountain views before Parking Lot at 9:30. Meet TC at the Appomattox arriving back to the trailhead. Highly recommend Kroger (behind the gas pumps) about 10 AM. Call water shoes (boots) and hiking sticks if the stream is TC to join his hike & tell him where you will meet running high. Contact the hike leaders to join their the group. hike and tell them where you will meet the group. Hiking Schedule: Oct - Dec, 2021 3 Sat Oct 23 Hike #6393(M) Sun Oct 31 Hike #6396(M) Lower Terrapin Mountain HD:7 Otter Creek Trail: Locks, Creek and Lake Leader:Coby Pieterman, 540-586-8464 HD:7 8:00 AM @ Boonsboro Shopping Center - Leader:Mary Beth Nickolich, Caravan to Hunting Creek Baptist Church to 8:30 AM @ Boonsboro Shopping Center - meet Coby at 8:30 AM. (DD:40 MRT, $3) Carpool to meet the hike leader at the James This in and out hike is on an old woods road that River Visitor Center at 9AM (DD:40 MRT, generally follows the contour line near the base of $3) Terrapin Mountain. We will enjoy some beautiful Our hike will include crossing the James River on a views this time of year and will be stopping for foot bridge to view a canal lock from the days of the lunch/snack alongside a rushing stream. Meet the pre-railroad Kanawa Canal. After recrossing the hike leader at Hunting Creek Baptist Church (on footbridge we will enter Otter Creek Trail with tree Highway 122)...15455 Big Island Hwy, Big Island, covered trails following Otter Creek past large rock VA. Call Coby to sign up for her hike and tell her formations, an old homestead, under the Blue Ridge where you will meet the group.
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