Blue Ridge Mountains (March 2002)

Steve and I standing in the roof of a covered bridge at Turtle Island (TI) Preserve near Boone, North Carolina. Our friend Roo knows Eustace Conway, who started and runs TI as a primitive, self-sustaining camp. There is no electricity and everything is built and done from scratch.

Here I am with Roo and Steve at the summit of Beech Mountain, home to Ski Beech, the highest ski resort in the East at over 5,000 feet. It was a pretty warm day in mid-March and the snow was melting fast, but we were able to get in a solid day of skiing nevertheless.

Roo and I standing in front of a stream that runs through Turtle Island, which is called so because it is surrounded on all sides by streams such as this one.

Steve, Roo and I at Linville Falls in the mountains of North Carolina. We hiked about a half mile to get to this spot to view the multi-level waterfall.

Steve sitting with Roo on his Isuzu Trooper at an overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We took his "Troop," as we call it, on a skiing and sightseeing tour of the N.C. mountains in March of 2002.

Roo, Steve and I (trust me, it's us) on top of "Blowing Rock," so called because the wind blows upward. There is a legend about an Indian girl and her lover who jumped off the rock and was blown back up to her.