Black Mountain Crest Trail - October 2021

There's the easy way to get to Mount Mitchell, the hard way, and then there's the Black Mountain Crest. A 12 mile trek across 10 peaks over 6,000 ft in elevation with the HIGHEST one this side of the Mississippi as the reward. You can probably guess which way I chose...

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Music featured in this video: "Crystal Echoes" by Sergey Cheremisinov, "Two Mountains at a Time (instrumental)" by Pachyderm, "" Heartless Man" by Normcore, "Return to Normal" by Waterthrush, "Be Back Soon" by David Mumford, "Wedding Music" by Arulo, "Candlelight" by Jahzzar.

Side Note: Although the trail doesn't go directly over the summit of all 10 peaks, it comes close. I did my best to label about where the trail passes by each peak or the scramble trails up to the true summits. There was also a lot of conflicting information about the exact height of some of the peaks. So once again, I did my best to label accurately.