{"id":38043,"date":"2025-12-31T03:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38043"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:35:25","slug":"frosty-pisgahs-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38043","title":{"rendered":"Frosty Pisgah’s Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A cold morning around 30 degrees with possible sunshine after the fog … snow at lower elevations in the foothills, and Ridgeline Trai<\/a>l hiked last week. I decided to head to Mt Pisgah for a solid ramble around the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I left North TH around 7:00 with headlamp on and went to Pisgah Summit arriving just prior to sunrise. The fog hadn’t lifted, but Pisgah was above it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After going down toward the East TH and returning the Pisgah summit, the morning light showed the heavy frost and dew even with the fog <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sun tried to burn away the fog around mid-morning, but the fog rolled back in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do you use Merlin? Have any funny stories about using it? Today, I heard an almost red-tail hawk cry, but knew it was a Stellar Jay (I could see it too) …I took out Merlin, and it returned “Red-tail Hawk”. Then I clicked my tongue a few times to get the jay to sing again… Merlin said “black-capped chickadee” … 2 boo-boos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Route<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Started at North TH went to the summit 4x and avoided Trail 1 and the area around Arboretum. Spent most time on Trail 2 and 4. <\/p>\n\n\n