This is the standard 11 mile loop from the CC Camp Road. It is windy and bit cold today. We encountered some snow as we reached the top of the ridge. Walking in the open meadow was windy. I managed to warm up at the stone shelter with some hot tea.
For the next few miles we are in and out of the wind. For some reason, the hills took their toll on me today. I was glad to see the last one before heading into the apple orchard. Once back on the old road along Rock Castle Creek, I began to see many signs of homesites and old fields. The land next to creek often was flat enough to farm. It was the only land here that could be farmed. We saw remnants of an old bridge across the creek, an old roadbed reinforced with a stone wall to keep it from washing away and what appeared to a terrace by the creek (right at the primitive camping area).
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