It is hard to believe but today is the one year anniversary
of this blog. Well, technically I started this
page in March of 2013, but I
never posted and at that time it was called the Spork. This original incarnation
never took off (because I just wasn’t feeling it) and it lay dormant until
Thanksgiving Week of last year. I had been told by a number of people that I
should start a blog; well I hated to tell them I had one but I just never did
anything with it. Anyway, it was during this week that I decided to give blogging another chance. The focus from that first blog in March to the one in December wasn’t much different, but I
decided to use more photos. I had been posting photos on Facebook (and still
do) but I wanted them on my own space. The first thing I knew I needed was a name
change and since my trail name is the Wood Booger and hiking would be a feature
of this blog I decided to use it in the title of this page. If you don’t remember
the first blog was about the 2013 Fall Hiking Series and since then I have posted
130 entries over the past year. So, in honor
of my one-year anniversary I am doing a special Wood Booger Top 5 on my
favorite blogs of the past 12 months. I have written plenty more than five blogs I
love and if I wrote this in a year this list could look different, but these are right now, of writing, my favorites. If anyone has a favorite blog, post your list here
on the blog or on my Facebook, Google+, Tumblr or Twitter pages where I link it with this entry.
Before I get started here is the Top 5 Blogs based on page views:
Now the Wood Booger Top 5:
Honorable Mention:
Fall Hiking Series –
December 10, 2013. Like I said above this is the blog that started
it all. When I did it I knew the direction the blog would take but maybe not how
it would look in practice. That first blog is still alive because ever four
months I do one of these series hikes post for each of the seasons. Last week
this came full circle with one on the
Fall Outdoor Series. I guess in some ways
there would be no blog without this post.
Honorable
Mention 2:
A Change In Seasons: The Differences Between Summer & Winter On The AT -
March 27, 2014.
This could have been in the Top 5 and is one
of my favorite blogs. It was my first compare an
d contrast blog I
did and I think it is still the best. Photo Blogs are a big part of this page
and this is the one that is still closest to my heart. The area at Hog Pen Gap
is one of my favorites and the contrast on the days featured was stark. I liked
this idea at the time and it is still a favorite of mine.
Number 5:
Four Days Is A Short Stay In Charleston –
November
19, 2014. This blog was one of my favorites because I enjoyed these four days
so much. Besides getting to hang out with my Dad, Terry and Deb I got to hike,
see some of Charleston, get a boating license and get to do something I haven’t done in
years…fish. It was a fun blog to write and it just makes it into the Top 5.
Number 4:
AT Day Hikes: Roan Highlands –
February 20, 2014. This
wasn’t the first AT Day Hike Blog that would by the
Rich Mountain Fire Tower
entry. I also have written others I love, like the
Blood Mountain AT Day Hikes
blog. However, my favorite is the one on maybe the most picturesque spot in the southern
Appalachian Mountains…the Roan Highlands. The beauty of this area is self-explanatory,
but writing this blog gave me a chance to experience my day on the balds again. This
was not a hard one to write because it was a great day and hike. Oh also as I mentioned
above it is popular with readers of this blog because it is the second most viewed.
Number 3:
When It Comes To Mountains It is Better To Be The Tallest –
December 17, 2013. I have to say that this was the first idea for the
blog I had when I decided to finally get this page up and running. When I went back to Brasstown Bald in October of 2013 I found the contrast between it
and Rabun Bald, which I had visited just the week before, to be very different. So, when
I started to think about getting this blog going this was the first subject
that I wanted to do. Because that the Fall Hiking Series had just ended, and I
thought it would make a better test to see how the blog would look I decided
this post would go second. I think it came together well, and recently I even
updated it. I think that someone read it because of the improvements that
I mention in my update of this entry. Oh, and other must have liked it because it is my most
viewed blog.
Number 2:
Bear Facts About Bear Parks –
April 29, 2014. I
don’t write a lot of opinion blogs, but sometimes I can’t help myself. When I
first heard about the closing of the Black Forest Bear Park, in Helen, GA, early this year I
was thrilled, but it wasn’t until I passed by the closed park in April that the
idea for this blog came to mind. These places had bothered my since my younger days when I visited
Santa Land, in Cherokee, NC, in the 1980’s. So, this was not a hard blog to
write and has always been a favorite of mine (take another look because I just updated it).
Number 1:
The Perils Of Winter Hiking or How Snow Miser Kicked My Ass! –
March 2, 2014. This was a blog I knew I was going to write
while I slogged up Levelland Mountain on that COLD day in late February! It is one of
my most memorable hikes (because of the zero wind chill) and I tell this story far more often than any trip out…ever.
So, it should not be a surprise that one of my favorite stories to tell would
be my favorite blog, because that is what this page is about, the experiences I
have had. Like most of these Top 5 blogs it wasn’t hard to write. While it may not
be the most viewed it is my number one blog of the first year of the Tales From
The Wood Booger and still one of the best.
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