Huckleberry Trail

The Huckleberry Trail starts at the top of Spruce Knob and runs through shaded high-mountain spruce glades all the way down to the Falls of Seneca Creek. There are only a few overlooks along the trail, but when you start at Spruce Knob, you've already seen the best vistas around.  Apparently the remains of an old plane crash are visible along this trail.  We didn't see the plane, but we didn't really look too hard either.  

Lately I have been posting lots of pictures of these wooded trails.  Their quiet serenity is really underappreciated.  Sometimes I think people hike only to arrive at some grand vista or huge waterfall.  I enjoy those destinations too, but these pictures of wooded trails are my celebration of the process of "getting there."  I like this photo because one lone spruce tree is spotlighted like a soloist in a grand choral ensemble.