Bat Cave native treks entire Appalachian Trail
BlueRidgeNow.com, NC -7 minutes ago
Bat Cave native Ben Finsel completed the ultimate trail walk — thru-hiking the 2175-mile Appalachian Trail. He did it solo. ...
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Bat Cave native treks entire Appalachian Trail
BlueRidgeNow.com, NC -7 minutes ago
Bat Cave native Ben Finsel completed the ultimate trail walk — thru-hiking the 2175-mile Appalachian Trail. He did it solo. ...
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Bat Cave, NC! Too cool! That's the gateway city to Hendersonville, NC. I know exactly where Bat Cave is.
I spent a month in Hendersonville one week, and I've done that many times. One of Famous Huge International Corporation's (the one that pays me big bucks to spend hours each day monitoring White Blaze) production facilities is there. Occasionally I am tasked to go there and drink gallons of Diet Coke while watching an understaffed crew try to make textiles that their equipment was not designed to produce. My function is to inform the crew that the material does not meet specifications. The crew already knows that. But 'FHIC' pays me an obscene, absolutely pornographic, amount of money to do it and they've been willing to do it for many years.
Hey, it's a living. I can't complain. It beats sitting in a cubicle.
But that's not important now. What is important is that as I'm driving into Hendersonville and while still on the outskirts of Bat Cave the Blue Ridge and the route of the AT can easily be seen in the background. But very near Bat Cave I pass a sign that tells me that I have crossed the Eastern Continental Divide. I always thought the ECD was the Blue Ridge.
I guess I'm wrong. So geography's not one of my strenths.
Anyway, good going to the Bat Caver. Congratulations!
You never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
It's also really close to Chimney Rock Park, where lots of Last of the Mohicans was filmed.
It's a really pretty part of the state.
More importantly, Hendersonville has a joint that knows how to properly BBQ chicken.
http://www.babybackjoes.com/entrees.html
Their brisket and pulled pork aren't bad but their smoked chicken halves are heavenly.
But don't ask for mustard sauce. Trust me on this. That would be a deadly serious faux paus.
You never turned around to see the frowns
On the jugglers and the clowns
When they all did tricks for you.
Belated congrats to Batman. I met him just north of High Point last summer.