A fun wintry getaway for me & Leigh!
Our goal was to spend a snowy, wintry day in a small, mountain town, and we did achieve that! However, we also planned to see Grandfather Mountain on our way up, and that did not go quite as well.
Apparently there is a wind threshold beyond which they will shutdown the famous swinging bridge, I guess due to excessive swinging. The wind on that December afternoon was over 50 M.P.H., so no bridge and no hiking, but we did get to check out the science center that's like halfway to the top, and that's nice too!
We also saw some brief overlooks!
Chilly and blustery was to be the name of the game for our cozy overnight at the lodge in Blowing Rock. We arrived late afternoon, right about at check-in time, and precisely after we did, the first few flakes of snow began to fall!
This was just in time for a short hike on the property of the Chetola Resort, where we were staying, to a small lake just through the woods:
We returned to the room to warm up:
before a journey into town for dinner!
Back at the resort, we intended to take another walk now that there was proper snow cover, but it was just too bitterly cold! So a quick jot out to the lake and back would have to suffice.
We did take the effort to go to the (indoor!) hot tub, which required briefly going outdoors in our swim suits. Maybe that's where I got the crazy idea to start doing cold plunges that next January...
We awoke the next day to a pristine morning beauty:
Before heading back into the town of Blowing Rock to just enjoy being in a snowy mountain town:
They had an art museum, which we took a tour of:
And of course, we had to see the Blowing Rock itself:
before heading out of the mountains and back into our normal lives.
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