Hiking Around Linville Gorge with My Son

One late September day my son, Andy, and I decided to ride over to Linville Gorge to do some hiking. We first parked at the Table Rock lot and hiked over to the Chimneys and spent some time scrambling around the rocks and taking lots of photos. We saw a vast kettle of migrating hawks riding the thermals. Then we headed over to the new Hawksbill Mountain Trail to hike to the summit of that peak. Neither of us had ever been up there. The views were so nice I didn t want to leave. Then, we drove over to see