Three Top CampingThree Top Camping
One of the activities that is fun and enjoyable while you are up
here camping is to sit around the campfire after supper and listen to
the people from Appalachian Southern Folklore exchange stories they
have collected from the old folks back on the backroads and up in the
hollars.
In Ashe County there are wonderful places to go backpacking. Whether you are by a spring or down on the river flood plain you can always seem to find a flint or two or a bit of pottery.
We do not condone "potholers" but if you find a surface specimin you would want to keep it so you would know where to start looking again,that is if you came back.
If you are looking for a overnight adventure, or a week long trek through the mountains Ashe County NC has the camping areas for you. There are wonderful places to hike, whether for pleasure and conditioning, across the state.
Nature lovers and lovers can see the beauty of a mountain morning and plant-life aside trails over on the Three Top will tell you the seasons.
fish. If fishing in North Carolina is your thing heres a true fish story Shirlie Mahala Said he was "sang hunting" when he was a little youngan. over on the Longhope and up on a rock bigger than his roof was a hole about the size as a round dinner plate.
He yelled in then he smelled in it and looked and nothing but black and cool wind cameout of it in the day. He took him a pocket line with him the next time he went by that wuffin hole and decided to tie a rock on the line and see how deep it went. He tied out a little rock and payed out line off his trout dibblin line til he was down to the and still there was no bottom just a black hole.
Ol Shirlie said he forgot all about"sanging" that saturday and he was bound to find all he could about it.
His daddy his grandaddy even his greatgrandmother had never hear tell of a hole with no bottom up on the Longhope.Shirlie told me like this his daddy give him his fishing reel off the rod and said "if that much line can't touch the bottom it doesn't have one" he said.
Well Shirlie went back up to the "wuffer" and payed out that line and after several hundred yards it slacked off. When he brought it up and lo to mercy it was wet. "Well what did you do then" I asked Shirlie? There was a hook and sinker on my daddies line so I just turned me over some rocks and got me a gob of worms and sent it back down."Well" I asked? No sooner had she got down, a hit! and a run,"I kept pulling it was just a shivering like a brookie or a rainbow". But it was a fish ,cause I've caught them all my life. When I did get it up and out of the hole it was as white as a biscuit and didn't have eyes or holes where eyes on a fish should be. My mama said it didn't look like a trout she had ever seen and she wasn't cooking it."What did you do with it" I asked? Shirlie said he gave it to the cat for supper.
Now thats a true told story and and if its a lie then its one
that orta be told. The woods are full of these stories up here.
A view on the
Linville Falls Trail.We can find you a good guide if you want to spend a day
going down into the gorge.
If
you want to go to the Cone Estate for a day visit we can give you a
map.
Stone-Ricks Farm
262 Trout Lane Trout at Creston NC 28615
Trout General Store
O.W.Carroll E-Mail:
stone_ricks@Skybest.com
