Seven Sisters Hike with Highland Brewing Co
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy became educational partners with Highland Brewing Company in June 2010. As part of this partnership, we periodically lead guided hikes together – including an excursion on the West Ridge Trail, which crosses each of the Seven Sisters mountains near Black Mountain, NC.
The Seven Sisters are the mythical “daughters” of Graybeard, the tallest peak on SAHC’s 2,450-acre Montreat conservation easement. They are seven ascending peaks located south of Graybeard Mountain. Their names are Tomahawk (elevation 3,680 ft.), Little Piney or Stomping Knob (3,960 ft.), Big Piney (4,180 ft.), unnamed sister (4,360 ft.), Forked Ridge Knob (4,511 ft.), unnamed sister (4,830 ft.), Little Slaty (5,260 ft.), and the tallest sister, Big Slaty or False Graybeard (5,260 ft.). These seven peaks make up the western border of the conservation easement.
The easement is part of several thousand acres of contiguous forested lands that is vital to the unique plant and wildlife populations and in protecting headwater streams of the French Broad watershed from sedimentation and other pollution. Highland Brewing Company realizes that the quality of the brews benefits from fresh water safeguarded by permanently conserved land.
