Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy

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February 9, 2023 Walking With Bartram – Section 4 (2): Wilson Gap to Hale Ridge Road

UPDATED 2/6: This hike is now full, RSVPs closed.

This is a second opportunity to joins us for Section 4 of the Walking With Bartram hiking series. In an effort to make these hikes more enjoyable and accessible to everyone that is interested, we’re offering a second date to join us. We’ll try to limit these hikes to 10 folks to allow everyone better interactions and make shuttling between trailheads a little easier.

If you’ve already signed up for the January 27th Walking with Bartram, you can change your RSVP to this one, just let us know if you do. You can email us directly at info@blueridgebartram.org.

Join us for section 4 in North Georgia from Wilson Gap to Hale Ridge Road, right at the North Carolina border. This is the final section in North Georgia before heading into the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina. This section is 9.2 miles in length and we’ll start climbing a little more to enjoy the views Rabun Bald.

We’ll meet at 9:00 am at the Hale Ridge Road trailhead to organize our shuttle cars to the start point. Both trailheads are a little tight with rougher roads leading to them. But, we did alright with shuttling cars to Wilson Gap in December, so we’ll be ok. If you do have a higher-clearance vehicle and can car-pool, that would be very helpful.

More details to follow closer to this date once we have all our RSVPs in.

Newcomers are welcome to join us. All you need to bring is water, lunch, clothing appropriate for this season, and your sense of humor and wonder.

We have had great interest in these hikes and are working to create new hiking opportunities. If you are interested in leading a hike, let us know!

January 27, 2023 Walking With Bartram – Section 4: Wilson Gap to Hale Ridge Road

1/11/2023 UPDATE: RSVP for this hike is closed. We are currently looking into offering an additional hike to accommodate interest in these.

Joins us for section 4 in North Georgia from Wilson Gap to Hale Ridge Road, right at the North Carolina border. This is the final section in North Georgia before heading into the Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina. This section is 9.2 miles in length and we’ll start climbing a little more to enjoy the views Rabun Bald.

We’ll meet at 9:00 am at the Hale Ridge Road trailhead to organize our shuttle cars to the start point. Both trailheads are a little tight with rougher roads leading to them. But, we did alright with shuttling cars to Wilson Gap in December, so we’ll be ok. If you do have a higher-clearance vehicle and can car-pool, that would be very helpful.

More details to follow closer to this date once we have all our RSVPs in.

Newcomers are welcome to join us. All you need to bring is water, lunch, clothing appropriate for this season, and your sense of humor and wonder.

We have had great interest in these hikes and are working to create new hiking opportunities. If you are interested in leading a hike, let us know!

Please RSVP below so we can plan appropriately for the hike. We’ll close the RSVPs at 20 hikers.

Bartram Trail Photo Exhibit: Listening to the Land at The Bascom

Listening to the Land is a nine-month photography exploration of the Bartram Trail near Highlands, NC. Influenced by the legacy of William Bartram, photographers of all levels will be invited to enter an intimate world where the landscape is alive and waiting to be met, understood, and loved. Through workshops and dynamic online engagement, Kinship will help photographers cultivate a faithful conversation with the land that explores the rich biodiversity of place while honoring each photographer’s unique way of seeing and responding to the land.

Kinship Photography Collective: Bartram Exhibition
Kinship Photography Collective: Bartram Exhibition

Listening to the Land will open in December 2022 with an inspiring project-shaping exhibition featuring the work of 6-10 core Kinship photographers created in response to a designated section of the Bartram trail. The exhibition will introduce our community to the Kinship team and serve as the project’s launch.

This nine-month grassroots visual conversation will be curated into a culminating community exhibition in fall of 2023 that maps participants conversation with the land while revealing the delicate ecosystems that often go unobserved in public greenspaces. Here, viewers are invited to step into an intimate world where landscape images are revealed not as objects to be admired but as intimate portraits of a sovereign and alive place waiting to be met, cared for, and loved.

Featured Artists: Beate Sass, Brent Martin, Eric William Carroll, Erik Mace, Frances Bukovsky, Kaye Savage, Mike Belleme, Raymond Thompson Jr, Susan Alta Martin, Susan Patrice, and Yvonne Dalschen.

To learn more about Kinship Photography Collective, please click here.

Photocredit: Yvonne Dalschen

Nuevo: 22 de Octubre Caminata para el Mes de la Herencia Hispana (Caminata en Wayah Bald)

22 de Octubre @ 10:00am – 3:00pm

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Dirigido por uno de nuestros voluntarios del programa juvenil, Estela Acevedo Ruiz, este evento contará con interpretaciones traducidas en español de la flora local, fauna y paisaje locales que William Bartram escribio durante su tiempo en el oeste de Norte Carolina.

Estamos emocionados de que Estela haya aprovechado esta oportunidad para compartir las maravillas del Bartram Trail con más personas en el condado de Macon y sus alrededores. Nuestro objetivo es hacer que el Bartram Trail sea accesible y agradable para todos.

¡Esperamos verlos a todos ahi!

Por favor confirme su presencia a continuación para ayudarnos a planificar el evento.

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