White Squirrel 7 has eight hikes on it, with two of them nearby. To ease back into hiking after a holiday of the usual feasting and lassitude, we opted to hike close to home in DuPont State Forest. Our challenge hike for the day was the DuPont Loop: Twixt, Rock Quarry Road, and Wilkie trails, a 3.1 mile loop starting at the Corn Mill Shoals parking area off Cascade Lake Road. We moseyed over late in the morning and found the parking lot to be moderately busy, with the usual mix of bikers and hikers. ![]() In the months since we last posted, we’ve put in a few hikes to waterfalls and other scenic destinations, and we’ve squirreled away some photos and memories which may eventually find their way onto these pages. Speaking of squirrels, we were excited to see that Conserving Carolina has announced White Squirrel Hiking Challenge 7. Every couple of years, Conserving Carolina posts a series of hikes to showcase properties they had a hand in preserving in Transylvania, Henderson, and Polk counties in North Carolina and a sliver of upstate South Carolina. We completed White Squirrel 6 and have been keeping an eye out for the next challenge. The confluence of a new hiking challenge and a new year was clearly an opportunity, so we decided to make our first day hike one from the White Squirrel 7 set. ![]() Well, what do you know? We haven’t been kidnapped by Sasquatch, or fallen off a cliff, or swept away in a raging mountain river. It has been a minute, as the kids say, since we last posted. We may not be doing this retirement thing entirely correctly, as we have both gotten involved in volunteering with community groups that keep us regularly busy. Still, every now and then we shake free of our self-imposed obligations and venture into the woods. Which is why we moved to western North Carolina in the first place….
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