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June 10, 1983: Unlike the Roan Highlands, the open fields throughout the Mount Rogers area did not seem to be natural balds.
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In places which hadn't been grazed recently, thick scrub covered the landscape. The predominant features of these landscapes were emerald green spring grasses and medium to light gray boulders and rock outcrops,
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but these elements created a constantly changing and surprisingly varied countryside of rolling hills and rocky ridges. Mixed in were brushy areas of shrubs and stunted trees, scrubby overgrown fields and groves of fir, spruce, pines and northern hardwoods.
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I would not be seeing many of these trees again until Vermont.

From my book Then the Hail Came (A Humorous and Truthful Account of a 1983 #AppalachianTrail Thru-hike). Available in paperback and eBook: https://amazon.com/dp/B09Q...
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