Heavy rain and strong winds battered the already damaged Forest following the Christmas Day Ice Snow storm. The past month I have not hiked as often in Hot Springs National Park as many trails had not been cleared. Yesterday I took a quick tour of the west side of Hot Springs Mountain and found some trails still had down Trees blocking access. In the distance I heard chainsaws on North Mountain during my hike. Today I headed up Hot Springs Mountain again and found the Peak, Dead Chief, Short Cut and the east side of HSM trail loop are cleared. On North Mountain the Upper and Lower Dogwood trails are now cleared as well. As I was coming down the now cleared North Mountain side of the Floral Trail I could see crews clearing the Hot Springs Mountain side.
We have more rain storms coming in over night so I will check West Mountain trails accessibility early next week. We might have to remind park management that they need to clear the Sunset Trail om Music and Sugarloaf Mountains plus the area in the old Fordyce Estate. If you have recently hiked Indian Mountain I would love to know how the trail fared.
I missed the Forest and am glad to be back out on the trails…
Love to ALL!
Lee
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- HSNP Carriage Rd Birds-Eye Speedwell
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- HSNP Carriage Rd Chinaberry Tree
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- HSNP Carriage Rd Fleeing Fox
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- HSNP Carriage Rd Male Cardinal
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- HSNP Floral Trail Downed Tree
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- HSNP Floral Trail Downed Tree
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- HSNP Floral Trail Green Rust Leaf
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- HSNP Floral Trail
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- HSNP Fountain St Lawn Crowpoison
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- HSNP Fountain St Lawn Carolina Wren
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- HSNP Fountain St Lawn Lawn Carolina Wren
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- HSNP Fountain St Lawn Carolina Wren
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- HSNP Fountain St Lawn
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- HSNP Fountain St Lawn
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- HSNP Honeysuckle Trail Pileated Woodpecker
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- HSNP Honeysuckle Trail Pileated Woodpecker
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- HSNP Honeysuckle Trail Rest Hut
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- HSNP Tufa Terrace trail Carolina Chickadee
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- HSNP Tufa Terrace trail Carolina Chickadee
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- HSNP Tufa Terrace trail Carolina Chickadee
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Fungi Log
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Nest
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Nest
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Nestled Rock
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Log Rings Of Life
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Seed Shell on Rock
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- HSNP Hot Springs Mt Trail Turkey Vulture
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- HSNP Lower Dogwood Trail
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- HSNP Short Cut Trail Heavenly Bamboo
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- HSNP Tufa Terrace Male Cardinal
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- HSNP Tufa Terrace Male Cardinal
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- HSNP Upper Dogwood Trail
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This is so pretty and tho the trails are not totally cleaned up; the animals are surely coming back. Love the fox and various birds not to mention the wildflowers and fungus. Its going to be a gorgeous spring this February. x0xx0x00
Wow! lot’s of cool photos, thanks for the tour!
Beautiful photos! thanks for sharing.