This is my final day at Wilderness Wildlife Week. All week I have been hiking in warm temperatures but during the night we had a cold front move in and a 1 to 2 inch dusting of snow. We bus over to Greenbrier and are dropped off at the forks where Ramseys Creek and Porters Creek join. The walk up to the Barnes homesite follows a route I took several years back with my brother on our way up the Cat Stairs and Greenbrier Pinnacle. Our guide, Doug Duncan leads us up a faint trail along Bird Creek. We pass old homesites littered with artifacts.
We pass the site of the 3 sisters' graves before arriving at the cabin site. It is interesting to note all three of the sisters died very young. One passed on Christmas Day and the following Christmas Day another was born. Christmas had to relive memories in the Barnes family.
Here we are enjoying lunch in the snow in the shadow of Greenbrier Pinnacle.
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