Buckwheat Knob Trail (#122)
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Route map for the Buckwheat Knob Trail as tracked by the Gaia GPS app and depicted a la Google Earth...
Route map for the Buckwheat Knob Trail as tracked by the Gaia GPS app...
Club Gap (Buckwheat Knob/Avery Creek/Black Mountain/Club Gap Trails) -- 3,780'
Club Gap, seen here, marks the junction of four trails arriving from four different points on the compass. Behind in this shot is the Club Gap Trail (north). To the left (east) is the Black Mountain Trail while straight ahead (south) is the Avery Creek Trail. The Buckwheat Knob Trail heads west, or to the right, in this shot...
Buckwheat Knob Trail @ Club Gap -- 3,780'
The Buckwheat Knob Trail leaves Club Gap through thick scrub beneath high tension wires...not great...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 3,840'
Departing Club Gap and looking back, the Pisgah Ridge is seen to the north...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 3,880'
Despite being near 4,000-feet in elevation, the forest up here has a very low-elevation feel to it, with lots of low shrubs and vines...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 3,900'
It's barely a 200-vertical foot climb from Club Gap to the summit of Buckwheat Knob...nothing terrible at all...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 3,920'
Into some laurel for a bit...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 3,960'
The trail as it makes its final climb to the summit of Buckwheat Knob from the north...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 4,000'
Approaching the broad summit of Buckwheat Knob...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 4,009'
The summit of Buckwheat Knob is, like all the summits surrounding Avery Creek, thickly wooded...
Buckwheat Knob Trail -- 4,009'
A thick line of laurel hedges blocks most of the view through the trees off the north (and west) side of the summit...