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Medoc Mountain was not an exciting place but it was a very nice, quiet place to hike. I hiked back in through a very old Pine forest where a controlled burn had been taking place. Old Dam site on Bear Paw Swamp Creek old dam site I then took the Dam Site Trail to view the remains of a dam from the grape growing years.
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Summit TrailĪfter following the ridge the trail drops back towards Fishing Creek. Now being only 325 feet tall Medoc Mountain is tree covered so there is no view only a lot of forest. After crossing the bridge the summit trail rises 160 feet in a quarter mile to the summit Medoc Mountain. I started out along Fishing Creek heading for the Summit Trail. What Medoc Mountain has is hiking and lots of it. Though a calm stream a walk along the Fishing Creek Loop Trail shows a different stream as driftwood can be found in trees about 5 feet above the trail. Athenaeus Fishing Creekįishing Creek runs through the park on one side of Medoc Mountain. “Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read”. He named the mountain Medoc for a grape growing region in Boudreaux, France. Weller was a grape farmer and winemaker who produced a highly acclaimed, in it’s time, wine. Medoc Mountain got it’s name from Sidney Weller who owned the property in the 19th century. Now that is a true description of a Monadnock! Granite outcropping on Medoc Mountain Made of granite Medoc Mountain is an elongated ridge that was the core of a large ancient mountain range. Though not tall at 325 feet, Medoc Mountain towers over relatively flat terrain. Situated to the Northeast of Raleigh it lies near the fall line between the Piedmont Plateau and the Coastal Plain. They say the Sauratown Mountains are Monadnocks but I find they are just a few misplaced mountains, probably once a part of the Appalachians but now separated by erosion of the land between. There is always much discussion around Monadnocks.