{"id":33,"date":"2007-06-09T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T02:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2007-07-03T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T15:55:33","slug":"potato-knob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Potato Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potato_knob.jpg\" title=\"Potato Knob\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potato_knob.jpg\" alt=\"Potato Knob\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Potato Knob lies at the end of the Black Mountain Range on the border of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Mt Mitchell State Park. It&#8217;s the highest point in Buncombe County, although it&#8217;s unclear if the summit is in Bumcombe or Yancey.\u00a0 While the summit is just over 6400 ft, Potato Knob is not part of the South Beyond 6000 peaks.\u00a0 We however felt that it need to be climbed anyway.\u00a0 This is a view up at Potato Knob from the Mountains to Sea Trail just south of Mt. Mitchell Rd.<\/p>\n<p>So now lets get all the disclaimers out of the way. \u00a0This is not a casual peak hike, it requires orienteering which means some skill with a compass and topographic map.\u00a0 There are some seriously large cliffs on all sides of Potato Knob which mandate good route choosing.\u00a0 Also, the south and east side of this mountain are in the restricted Asheville watershed which means that sections of it are completely off-limits (use the MST basically).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potato_summit.jpg\" title=\"Potato Knob Summit\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potato_summit.jpg\" alt=\"Potato Knob Summit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is Melanie on the highest rock we could find on the summit of Potato Knob.\u00a0 Note that there isn&#8217;t much of a view here in the rhododendron thicket.\u00a0 The actual summit is a survey stake with blue and pink ribbons.\u00a0 The only reason this summit is even slightly accessible is because the county line crosses it, which means there is a old, generally unused survey trail over it.\u00a0 We took the hard way up (a re-entrant off of the MST which required about 700 vertical feet of climbing up rocks and downed trees).\u00a0 The survey trail to the southeast is a bit difficult to follow and skirts some serious drop-offs but it&#8217;s much easier than the way we came up.\u00a0 There are also some protruding rocks both near the top and scattered along the way that have spectacular views along the Blue Ridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potato_view.jpg\" title=\"Potato View\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/potato_view.jpg\" alt=\"Potato View\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato Knob lies at the end of the Black Mountain Range on the border of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Mt Mitchell State Park. It&#8217;s the highest point in Buncombe County, although it&#8217;s unclear if the summit is in Bumcombe or Yancey.\u00a0 While the summit is just over 6400 ft, Potato Knob is not part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=33\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potato Knob<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-ridge-parkway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}