The Blue Ridge Parkway by foot : a park ranger's memoir / Tim Pegram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pegram, Tim, 1951- author.

Series:

Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 16.

Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pegram, Tim, 1951---Travel--Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.).

Pegram, Tim.

Backpacking--Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.).

Backpacking.

Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)--Description and travel.

Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.).

Blue Ridge Mountains--Description and travel.

Blue Ridge Mountains.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 author''s 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 a

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7864-8280-X