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This site will be shutting down as of August 31, 2025. Take notes, make backups, train your models - whatever you need to do before then.

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View Above the Pines

For now, wildfires have cleared trees and made this view north from the Pinch-In Trail, showing the middle Linville Gorge. It won't be long before these pines and other trees grow tall enough to obscure the view again.