NC Sparks
Mountains to sea in four hundred miles.
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Places that behave less like ground and more like weather
Linville, the escarpment, and what falls through it.
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Linville is a gorge nobody has ever fully cleared
THE GORGES
Steep enough that logging never took it, the gorge holds old-growth stands and is one of the few places in the east that was never worked.
Rain hits the wall and falls out of the sky
THE GORGES
The Blue Ridge Escarpment forces air upward and wrings it out, which is why the Transylvania County side counts its waterfalls in hundreds.
A rock face that ices over and is climbed anyway
THE GORGES
Looking Glass Rock takes its name from the sheet of ice that forms on the north face and catches light.
MOUNTAINS
THE COAST
RIVERS
WHAT LIVES HERE
HISTORIES
