Tuesday, June 2, 2026

May 9 Picnic at Little Long Mountain

 


For 10 years, hikers have been using the overnight shelter atop Little Long Mountain on the Uwharrie Trail. It will be a bit more comfortable now that the Uwharrie Trailblazers have installed a picnic table on the site. How did that happen? How do you get a picnic table 3/4's of a mile from a trailhead to the top of a big hill? You disassemble it, carry it piece by piece and reassemble. 


Some Summer bluets


Jack


Lots of Sumac


Fire Pink


The prickly Pear here blooms in Mid May, so we are just a bit early. It appears that many of these blooms may have been nipped by the recent frosts. Still it should be a nice bloom. Social trails throughout the area have impacted these plants that seem to cling to the rocks here in order to survive. 




That weird Wire Thread Coreopsis. 


Galax



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