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Informationen zum Autor Freelance writer Tim Pegram is a former park ranger and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Klappentext One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This volume relates the authors one-of-a-kind backpacking trip along the 469-mile road, along with his observations and recollections regarding the Parkway, the most visited unit of the National Park Service. Beginning with his experience as a summer college intern, the book also covers the twelve years he spent working as a ranger on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Anecdotal history and accounts from some of the Parkways earliest rangers complete this tale of one of our countrys national treasures. The appendix contains a chronological, mile-by-mile re-creation of Pegrams 2003 trek, including the names of all the Parkway landmarks mentioned in the book. Zusammenfassung The Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This text relates author's one-of-a-kind back packing trip along the 469-mile road! along with his observations and recollections regarding the parkway! a unit of the National Park Service. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Once Upon the Parkway 2. Door Number Three 3. Twelve Years, Eight Months, Forty-One Days 4. Deliberately, Reflectively, Randomly 5. Means of Engagement 6. Milepost Zero 7. One Manpower 8. Boston Knob Overlook 9. Spooked. 10. Ranger Bloopers 11. Taking Flight 12. Stills and Fields 13. Ranger Mischief 14. Beware of Dog 15. Gone Awry 16. Disorderly Conduct 17. Clocking Butterflies and Bumblebees 18. Not of This Earth 19. Weathering Isabel 20. Crossing Paths 21. Death of a Chorus 22. Finding, at Last, the Wild Asparagus 23. Pure Harmony 24. Derailed in Avery County 25. Motorcycles 26. Skulking About 27. Bear! 28. Sunday Solace 29. Balsam Gap District Revisited 30. Swinging Snow Gates 31. The Main Event 32. Local Comparable Rate 33. Cased and Unloaded 34. Milepost 469 Appendix: Noted Parkway Locations and Author's Schedule Chapter Notes Bibliography Index ...
