Black Mountain -- October 25, 2003

    On October 25, 2003, Bill Urbanski (WCU), Ed Urbanski (EEU), and I (SKU) traveled to Black Mountain.  We made sure to submit the waiver form before we departed home.  This is a coal mining region and can easily be coupled with a visit to Mount Rogers, Virginia.  I had been there before, EEU and WCU had not.  Both times I was at Black Mountain, the gate to the summit was locked.

    Here's the pictures.  Enjoy.  

                      Steve Urbanski, February 16, 2005
 
001     The cut-off for State Route 160 just outside
        of Appalachia, Virginia
 
 
002    Along the road to the summit, you will
        pass by the air traffic radar signal station
 
 
003    The locked gate on the road to the summit
 
 
 
004     Looking back the summit road to the locked gate
 
 
 
005     Our GPS next to the USGS marker
 
 
 
006    Looking up at the summit fire tower
 
 
 
007    WCU looks up at the summit fire tower
 
 
 
008     WCU and EEU at the summit
 
 
 
009    A fellow highpointer on the summit
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
010    A summit view
 
 
 
011    The base of the summit tower
 
 
 
012    SKU at the summit marker
 
 
 
013    A view from the summit
 
 
 
014     The summit road
 
 
 
015    The entrance to the summit road from
        Route 160 heading East
 
 
016    WCU at the "Welcome to Kentucky"
        If you see this sign, turn around, the
        summit road is right behind you
 
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