The Swannanoa Valley Museum will hold a series of interest meetings in the coming weeks to discuss the upcoming 2016 Swannanoa Rim Hike Series and Valley History Explorer Series.
The first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 7 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. Subsequent meetings will be held Tuesday, Jan. 12 at Black Dome Mountain Sports beginning at 7 p.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 13 at REI Asheville at 7 p.m.
According to a press release from the museum, the meetings will “provide an introduction to our program offerings, details about individual hikes, advice for hikers, and information about our scholarships.” Each meeting is free to attend for the public.
The Swannanoa Rim Hike Series, now in its seventh year, features eleven different monthly hikes over the course of the year that take participants across the mountains that hem in the Swannanoa Valley, navigating 31 miles in total. The Valley Explorer Series, meanwhile, invites participants to explore the history of the communities of the Swannanoa Valley through seven moderately difficult three-mile hikes.
The first hike of 2016 Rim Hike Series is scheduled for January 23, beginning at 8 a.m. and will hikers on a strenuous six mile trek to explore the history and geography of the Y.M.C.A. Blue Ridge Assembly near Black Mountain, following the path surveyor, educator and author Willis Duke Weatherford took in 1906. The price is $30 for members of the Swannanoa Valley Museum and $50 for non-members.
Valley Explorer Series hikes begin in February and are $20 for members of the museum and $30 for nonmembers.
For more information on the Swannanoa Valley Museum, the Rim Hike or Valley History Explorer Series, or to sign up for a hike or entire series, check out history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org.
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