Reader Climbs Mt. Mitchell From Its Base

My name is Robert Sharpe and I have thoroughly enjoyed your book as it has helped me begin the Lookout Tower Challenge (I've nearly complete the South Beyond 6,000 Challenge) from the Carolina Mountain Club.  Today I lead a group to the summit of Mt. Mitchell and it's lookout tower from the Black Mountain Campground that had never taken the climb and I decided to participate in advertising for the book.  Attached is a picture of me holding the book with the tower in the background.

Today was an absolutely delightful day to be atop Mitchell.  It was cool but not too unseasonably cold and the skies were clear thus making it by far the best time I have been on the summit.

Thanks for writing the book!  It's been an immense help as I've climbed the peaks to the towers.

Thanks Robert, for your note and kind words regarding my book. Keep sending your tower/book photos and let me hear about all of your tower hikes you take in the future. And climbing Mt. Mitchell from Black Mountain Campground is no easy feat!  In my book, I rank only the Baxter Creek Trail up Mt. Sterling as the most strenuous hike to any lookout tower in North Carolina.  Notes like yours is why I wrote the book: to share the places most dear to me and get others as excited about the towers as I am.

All other readers, please make sure to send me your book/tower photos and stories of your hikes to the lookout towers, too.  I'll display them on the NC Lookouts blog.

And for those interested in purchasing your own copy of the Hiking North Carolina's Lookout Towers, click here.  I'll be happy to sign and personalize it for you, too.