❄️ FIRST SNOW! ❄️ Mt. Mitchell (6,684') got its first snowfall of the season this morning! NC's highest peak is looking beautiful covered in white. Did you catch the high elevation snow? Share your pics! 📸 📷: NC High Peaks Trail Association #MtMitchell #FirstSnow #NCwx #NCMountains

I just saw this handwritten list of people who are OK on my local Facebook. #BigRidge #MtMitchell #WinterStar #HurricaneHelene2024 #NorthCarolina #help #Asheville #HurricaneHelene #missingpersonhurricanehelene #Found #MISSINGPERSON #missing #Hurricane #Helene #Helene24Help #HeleneHelp

🚨#PSA #MtMitchell Golf Club Area #NC #Tennessee #SurvivorsList off People that are ok.

Please share: Names of people who apparently are ok and their locations in wnc #Asheville #mtmitchell #BooneNC #wncflooding

This is a list of people that live near Mt. Mitchell Golf Club that are ok. Someone went around to the houses and wrote the names down and hiked to the Blue Ridge Pkwy to get a signal and sent them out so families would know. #MtMitchell #NorthCarolina #HurricaneHelene

#WNC Ham Radio info #MtMitchell

Happy #SundayYellow y'all. We're going up to visit Mt. Mitchell this morning before the storms kick off. DIL has not been to the highest peak east of the grand ol Mississsippi, so today we'll fix that! #Appalachian #WNC #MtMitchell #sundayvibes

Uruguay oficializó la compra del buque científico Mt. Mitchell #buqueUruguay #Armadauruguaya #buquecientifico #Mtmitchell @Armada_Uruguay pucara.org/post/uruguay-ofic…

f3.5 1/4000 ISO 1250 27mm Sony A6100 Mt Mitchell, North Carolina #photograghy #photographer #NatureBeautiful #nature #NaturePhotography #landscapephotography #landscape #sky #blue #mtmitchell #mountains #mountain

Our next trip took us to the highest mountain east of the Mississippi, Mr. Mitchell. We drove along the scenic Blue Ridge Highway until we reached Mt. Mitchell. Beautiful views everywhere, and it smelled wonderful in the Balsam forest. #blueridgeparkway #mtmitchell

Mt. Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi. Beautiful. #MtMitchell #NorthCarolina #blueridgeparkway #nature #healthylifestyle #HealthyLiving #healthcoachlife

From above the clouds at 6,684 feet 7 years ago on this date. We're a little under the weather today and this pic is metaphorical opportunity rise above it all. Breathe in well being, breathe out fewer germs. 🙂 #MtMitchell

-: @CWEMSE Day 23 :- Daily Travel (Total Travel): 1,537 km (16,250 km*) Knot of the Day: Valdotain Tresse Today was flight day for #MD74 David Baskin at @MedCenterAir . He got outstanding ventilator, helicopter, and wilderness medicine training from MCA/@Landmarklearn's Graham Neville. He also learned all about aviation safety and how seriously maintenance warnings are taken, which we think was a good lesson with which we agree and we'll take 100% take that #safetythird lesson in lieu of flights! On the ground side, #MD73 Brian Drury had an academic day. We had a vigorous discussion during our @MtMitchellStPk day about whether there was appeal or a reason to hike up to a mountain summit that could be driven to. We used Mt. Washington as our prototypical mountain for this discussion, but Drury took it to heart, and returned to Mt. Mitchell today to hike the 18 km roundtrip from base campsite to summit! He does confirm it is worth hiking up to high peaks even if you can drive there. We agree with that too. :-) Tonight the Externs are back into #roadwarrior mode, en route to the James River in Virginia to get #swiftwaterrescue training with our friends at Blue Ridge Adventure Medicine and VT Carilion Wilderness Medicine Fellowship starting early in the morning—stay tuned for their aquatic adventures tomorrow! #CWEMSE2023 #cwemse #expeditionary #expeditionmedicine #wildernessmedicine #wildernessEMS #essequamvideri #crewnotpassengers #medicalschool #emergencymedicine #hawkventures #yesthisismedschool #WakeForestWildMed #wildmed #WEMS #UNCBlueRidge #WPCC #thisispublichealth #ncparks #hiking #amhiking #helicopterems #medcenterair #mtmitchell #mtmitchellstatepark

-: @CWEMSE Day 21 :- Daily Travel (Total Travel): 522 km (14,520 km*) Knot of the Day: handcuff knot We went to Canada today, y'all! Well, in a manner of speaking... Today was our day at Mt. Mitchell State Park, also known as "Canada Down South" or the "sky island wilderness". Mt. Mitchell is the highest point east of the Mississippi at 6,684 ft (2,037 m). It features an alpine forest ecosystem much more consistent with Canada than NC. Fossil evidence suggests the plants and animals here are relics of the last Ice Age. They migrated southward from Canada ahead of the glaciers. When the glaciers retreated, about 15,000 years ago, some of the cold-adapted plants and animals were left isolated on the extreme high mountain summits of the southern Appalachians, forming biological island like Mt. Mitchell. MD1, MD73, and MD74 are all ecologists in one way or another, and this space—one of the most fascinating in the southeast—was worth the visit just for that alone. We reached this sky island park by rejoining the Blue Ridge Parkway (our old friend from the ᏣᎳᎩ Cherokee Module, and more National Park Service time). We crossed the Eastern Continental Divide and took one of the most winding roads imaginable up to the park. On the way up we stopped for a truly epic gnarly tree-in-fog and learned it was on the first USFS tract ever established by President Taft, so we paid our respects to USFS there. Mt. Mitchell SP's main road is one of the most habitat-diverse in the southeast, starting with deciduous Appalachian hardwoods and the world-famous Catawba rhododendrons before yielding to the alpine flora of evergreens, red spruces, and Frasier firs in a primeval conifer fir forest. From an EMS standpoint, the fierce alpine environment poses unique challenges for rangers involved in medical care and rescues. In the winter, this is easily the snowiest place in NC, with an average of over 90" (230 cm) of snow every year. One recent Christmas Eve was -22°F (-30°C) before wind chill—for the South, this is pretty remarkable, and from a rescue perspective, that makes it even more extreme than areas and responders familiar with and equipped for those temperatures. Year-round the temperature is reliably 20°F less than the surrounding valleys, and the terrain and remoteness provides ongoing challenges. The Black Mountain Crest Trail, one of the premier trails in the eastern US, is 11 miles long and traverses six mountain peaks higher than 6,000 ft (1,839 m)! This is epic altitude for the east Coast. An ambulance is more than an hour away on a good day and frequently air medical transport is needed, although the alpine weather frequently complicates this. It was pretty impressive for the Externs to be dripping sweat learning technical rescue skills at Pilot Mountain State Park in >90°F (32°C) typical southern summer weather, and to be able to visit a truly alpine mountain only two weeks later in the same state and (Hawkins-style) EMS response area. We peppered Superintendent McGraw with tons of questions and learned a ton about rescues and EMS care in one of the truly remote and fierce environments of the American southeast. Great day up in the clouds! *total course travel distance to date for #MD1, #MD73, and #MD74, including by foot, climbing, rappelling & ascending rope, car, truck, ferry, UTV, helicopter, dune ambulance/response vehicle, canoe, pontoon boat, swimming, fire apparatus, bicycle #CWEMSE2023 #cwemse #expeditionary #expeditionmedicine #wildernessmedicine #wildernessEMS #essequamvideri #crewnotpassengers #medicalschool #emergencymedicine #hawkventures #yesthisismedschool #WakeForestWildMed #wildmed #WEMS #UNCBlueRidge #WPCC #thisispublichealth #ncparks #mtmitchell #MOMI #blueridgeparkway #USFS #USForestService #NationalParkService #medtwitter @NCparks @NCEmergency @HawkVenture @MtMitchellStPk @ncculture

If the starter aint a dickhead are you really at a golf course? #MtMitchell

Happy Monday! You got this fam 👊🙏🇺🇸 #preppingwithsarge #mountmitchell #mtmitchell #hikingtrails

Mountain Song 🆙 #western #nc #mtmitchell #life #elevated #mountian #air #write #songs #milehigh #musicislife

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#MtMitchell is in Western North Carolina

“The only way to see Mt. Mitchell or any of the vast wonderland of the Black Mountains was to go afoot, picking one’s way through the eternal twilight of virgin forest along ancient trails...” C. Hodges Mathis #watercolor #weswaugh #mtmitchell #landscapepainting