Pinch In trail

[flair4040]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPS2vYHD27E

Over Thanksgiving we camped way above the Gorge. This is a short vid of my son and I taking a nice long day hike down the Pinch In trail, up Linville Gorge Trail, and finishing up Conley Cove trail. We had a blast.

[slowhike]

Nice! I've spent a little time in the gorge but never been up or down Pinch In Trail... herd stories, seen pictures, seen it from the other side, but I think that's the first time I've seen part of it on video.
But I noticed you stopped filming when you got on the steep part

[flair4040]

Nice! I've spent a little time in the gorge but never been up or down Pinch In Trail... herd stories, seen pictures, seen it from the other side, but I think that's the first time I've seen part of it on video.
But I noticed you stopped filming when you got on the steep part

You got that right. Dang that trail is steep.

[Hawk-eye]

Looks like a nice day with the boy and the beast. Mo'better to go down Pinchin than up huh? Shame it was foggy, the views are magnificient on a clear day. Check out the opening to our May '10 trip video with the Gorge Rats ... there's a clip of Ken, Waterbar Jim and I going down it in clear weather. Mighty pretty trail. Waterbar Jim is the trail volunteer that maintains it. Ken and Jim do keep a mighty fine difficult trail in pretty good shape!

[Poppabear]

Getting to spend time on the trail with your son is good stuff. Thanks for sharing your outing with us.

[millergear]

How easy/hard is it to follow the LGT now? I've done it twice in past years and had a really tough time finding my way through. About 4 hours to cover the 5 miles!

[flair4040]

How easy/hard is it to follow the LGT now? I've done it twice in past years and had a really tough time finding my way through. About 4 hours to cover the 5 miles!

From Pinch In to Conley Cove was very easy to follow.

[millergear]

Thanks! Great news. Some of my young (40's, 50's) friends were scared off by my tales of previous "Bushwacking" travails on the LGT.

[MrTiles]

Every time I've been to the gorge - except the last trip a few weeks ago where we didn't hit pinch-in at all - I've hike out of the gorge up pinch-in. Going up it hurts. I don't know if my knees would let me go down it though ;-)

[hang um high]

Thanks! Great news. Some of my young (40's, 50's) friends were scared off by my tales of previous "Bushwacking" travails on the LGT.

Not so much scared off as positively terrified.