{"id":1522,"date":"2022-08-23T17:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T22:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T22:44:48","slug":"parsons-mountain-misadventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/parsons-mountain-misadventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsons Mountain [mis?]adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a day off to recover from a rough couple of months at work, I decided to go someplace different for a little walk in the woods, the Parsons Mountain Recreational Area in Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA<\/a>. I’ll say right up front: if you’re looking for a nice easy stroll through the trees, this is not the place for you. The trails are not particularly well marked, and my hike<\/a> involved a couple missed\/wrong turns. Most of them look like:
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\nbut can be rather hard to follow in some areas:
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\nand in other areas you get real acquainted with the local flora (yes, this is the trail):
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\nThere were bridges for many of the stream crossings, but where there weren’t, it wasn’t difficult. At least with as little rain as we’ve had.
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\nAfter coming around the north side of the Parsons Mountain Lake, I came to what I thought was the T-intersection with the tower trail. Make note: this isn’t<\/i> it:
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\nHaving gotten back on course, then losing the trail again and doing a little “area navigation”<\/a>, I started up Parsons Mountain proper. There were several of these little fenced-off areas.
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\nOnce at the top, Ah, there’s<\/b> the fire tower. Unfortunately it was locked up and “no trespassing”, otherwise I’m sure the view would be worth the stair climb (N.B. this is NOT a lightning-safe area).
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\nStill, the view from the mountain top there was pretty good.
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\nI think this is where I should have intersected the Tower Trail on the way out. Found it on the way back anyway.
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\nAnd this is the Parsons Mountain Lake. That’s pretty much all of it.
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I didn’t really see much in the way of animal wildlife, aside from the abundant insects. There were interesting plants (and fungi) just about the whole way though. I have no real expertise in plant identification, so here’s a bunch I took pictures of. Add a comment if you recognize any of these.
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With a day off to recover from a rough couple of months at work, I decided to go someplace different for a little walk in the woods, the Parsons Mountain Recreational Area in Abbeville County, South Carolina, USA. I’ll say right up front: if you’re looking for a nice easy stroll through the trees, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}