Pilot Mountain State Park-Spring Ledge Trail

Three time's a charm, not that the other two times I visited Pilot Mountian were a failure, but I have two of my favorite people with me, my sons.

 We looked in awe at the rock climbers ascend and descend the rock face called Three Bears.

From the parking lot, we traveled down the Spring Ledge Trail for 0.30-miles to the Three Bear Trail. All of us climbed down a rock-like staircase to where the Spring Ledge Trail takes you beneath the cliffs.

A typical view of the cliff that hung over us most of the way.

It did not take long before all of us were hot and sweaty. The Spring Ledge Trail descends 800 feet in a half mile. What goes down must come back up.

We found a perfect resting place tucking ourselves under the shade of the cliff.

I stayed pretty much on the trail, but boys will be boys and they climbed on rock ledges every chance they could.

Logan, Aaron, and Gypsy were waiting for me to catch up among the Dogfennel.

Logan spotted this Eastern Fence Lizard.

Aaron has a bad habit of removing his clothing on hot days. He walked with no shirt or shoes for most of a mile despite a continued plea for him to put his shoes back on.

Gypsy usually has her ears flapping in the wind and Aaron is a continue chatterbox, but they just weren't themselves on the ride home.