Major Snow Along the Blue Ridge Escarpment

After over three years, the arrival of a significant snow storm in these parts was cause for celebration. Eight inches fell over a 24 hour period, and cold temperatures ensured that the white stuff would be around for a while. Below is my house before sunrise on Thursday, February 13th, with heavy snow still falling.

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Snow Rocks and Fence

Covered Cars

Snow Caddy

Icicle Gathering

The road circles around the southern slope of Oak Mountain above Otter Pond.

Wolf Pen Mountain on the far horizon, with Bear Gap, and Brushy Top Mountains, is still getting heavy snow near sunrise.

Dick’s Mountain Snow

Virginia Pine in Snow

Hidden Hemlock House

Bear Gap Mountain

Hemlock House in the Woods

Mahogany Hemlock House

Hemlocks in Snow

Brushy Top and Pines

High Lodges Pond reflects a snow covered Brushy Top Mountain.

Brushy Top Oaks

High Lodges Gate

Covered Logs

Road to High Lodges

Sunny View of Bear Gap

Afternoon Deck View

Afternoon Snow Meadow

Sunset Forest

Otter Creek flows past a small waterfall from a branch out of High Lodges.

At the end of a perfect day, the sun paints the colors of winter as it slips behind Dick’s Mountain.

A full moon over Otter Creek Valley illuminates a snow covered deck at Hemlock House.

As midnight approaches, the full moon gives a magical aura to a glowing Hemlock House. This was another memorable day in an incredible place in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

• February 14, 2014
• Blue Ridge Escarpment, Hemlock House at Otter Creek, Mountain Lakes, North Carolina, Otter Creek Valley, Rivers, Streams, and Creeks, Rutherford County, Winter, Wolf Pen Mountain
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