Wild and Wonderful Adventures |
The Appalachian Mountains cloak the entirety of West Virginia, an outdoor lover’s playground, home to rugged terrain, winding rivers, and countless forested trails that shine in all four seasons. Below, read a dispatch from a weekend of whitewater rafting on the famed Upper Gauley River, learn about a unique raptor-watching vantage point, discover why the cross-country ski trails in the Alleghenies come with plenty of charm, and take in a fisherman’s ode to the spot where two historic rivers converge.
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What It’s Like to Paddle the
Upper Gauley’s Famed Seasonal Rapids |
Climb This Former Fire Tower for
Magnificent Views of Migrating Raptors |
Small Towns and Ski Trips
Beckon in the State’s Winter Wonderland
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Chasing smallmouth and solace where the Shenandoah and Potomac
meet in Harpers Ferry
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SOMETHING IN THE AIR: You sense it the moment you cross over the French Broad River, the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance—Asheville is just different. There’s an easygoing charm here, a bohemian hospitality signifying a community dedicated to pushing the city forward, be it through art, music, conservation, biodiverse farming, or sustainable dining. This is the community you’ll meet in this season’s PBS series The Good Road, a show dedicated to spotlighting the world’s change makers. As a companion to its coverage—and in partnership with Explore Asheville—G&G offers three mini Asheville episodes featuring editor in chief David DiBenedetto and individuals who, in the spirit of G&G’s Champions of Conservation, are making not just Asheville, but the South, a better place to live. Watch The Good Road’s “Asheville, NC - The French Broad” and three mini episodes.
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Napa Valley. After years of dry weather, enough rain deluged Napa County last winter that the verdant hills fairly vibrated with wildflowers when I visited. Downtown Napa has experienced something of a super bloom, too, with new hotels, restaurants, tasting rooms, and shops beckoning those who perhaps once stuck to the outlying wineries and vineyards. I found myself enchanted by the whole area—but not so much that I couldn’t appreciate a few tastes of home.
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KFC—“Kellerville” Fried Chicken: Since opening his famed French Laundry in 1994, Thomas Keller has slowly grown his restaurant empire in Yountville, a picturesque burg about fifteen minutes north of downtown Napa. You can often spot him there, a lanky figure in chef’s whites cycling back and forth between his kitchens. Everyone knows to hit his Ad Hoc on Mondays—that’s fried chicken night. The double-handled pan holding a whole fryer’s worth of legs, wings, and breasts barely had time to hit the table before we picked the perfectly crispy, buttermilk-dipped pieces clean.
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Another Chucktown: Taking a class at the Culinary Institute of America at Copia, with its kitchen full of gleaming, colorful Hestan stoves and ovens, had me dreaming of ditching the computer and donning a toque full-time. Even better for this cookware obsessive: the Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum there. The thousands of copper molds, embossed rolling pins, oyster plates, ceramic soup tureens, and more delights once owned by the Jacksonville, Florida–born founder of Williams-Sonoma had my head on a swivel.
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Greenville’s Own: While representing G&G at an event at Hestan Vineyards, I nerded out chatting with the Food Network star Tyler Florence about our shared love of South Carolina’s Upstate. The Greenville native—who once waxed poetic with G&G about one of my favorite old-school steakhouses, the Peddler, and now oversees his own uber steakhouse, Miller & Lux, in San Francisco—smoked a wagyu brisket for us I’m still dreaming about.
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