Mt. Roberts

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Originally Posted by DRH

"...There are a number of excellent trails on the Castle grounds. We're planning to hike up Mt. Shaw next week pending good weather..."

Not quite halfway up Mt. Shaw is an easy "walk in the woods": It gets a bit rockier past that point.

With the trees just starting to turn color now, I'd wait until October, when strong winds will keep the temperature (and any bugs) down.

While researching some Mt. Shaw links, I found some photos of that hike, with some hints that should improve your hiking experience:
http://www.wanderingfools.com/album/Shaw/shaw.html

All of the details in the above photographs—flora or fauna—were new to me, so every hike on Mt. Shaw must be a different experience: One of mine certainly was:

A party of hikers walked out of the woods onto my well-marked Mt. Shaw trail—coming onto it at a 90° angle—and asked me how to find "Bald Knob". They were at least a mile from "Bald Knob", and were coming from that direction!

BTW: I'm still looking for a mysterious missing relic, missing monument, Mt. Shaw link that popped up only once at a Google-Earth map!