ASHEVILLE – Two hikers lost in the Shining Rock Wilderness area in Haywood County were rescued Saturday evening thanks to the efforts of helicopter crews and nearly 100 ground based rescuers ...

Most of the Shining Rock Wilderness area of the Pisgah National Forest is now reopened to the public after being closed when a wildfire started burning at the summit of Cold Mountain Nov. 21, said ...

The search for an Asheville Marine veteran not seen for nearly a week, continued Oct. 18 in the Shining Rock Wilderness and Black Balsam Knob area of Pisgah National Forest.

The body of missing hiker Chad Seger has been located in “an off-trail area” at Shining Rock Wilderness Area, according to Haywood County Emergency Services. Searchers found Seger, 27, at ...

The famed Cold Mountain featured in a popular novel and award-winning movie is on fire in ... reports Romantic Asheville. Shining Rock Wilderness Area encompasses more than 18,000 acres in ...

A wildfire burning on Cold Mountain in the Shining Rock Wilderness area of Pisgah National Forest grew Nov. 22 to 126 acres, said Bruce MacDonald, spokesman with the North Carolina Forest Service. … ...

Crews found Asheville hiker Chad Seger at about 3 p.m. in the Shining Rock Wilderness area.

Seger, 27, of Asheville, had not been in contact with anyone since Oct. 12. His body was found in an off-trail area near the Art Loeb Trail in the Shining Rock Wilderness Area of Pisgah National ...

Search teams found Seger's body at approximately 3 p.m. in an off-trail area near the Art Loeb Trail in the Shining Rock Wilderness area, Richmond said. Seger was last seen on Oct. 12.

My husband’s immersion into mountain life came at a much earlier age, on the lap of his grandfather, editor and general manager of the Asheville Citizen Times (1920-54), D. Hiden Ramsey.When ...

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