And on that note, please nominate your favorite local business that could use some love right now:The first indication of the Grandfather Trail is a bright red sign indicating the difficulty of the trail, the involvement of ladders, cables, scaling rocks and cliffs. The budding scientist, who was dating a girl back home, Margaret Talbert, discovered a new species of salamander on his first trip.The following summer, at age 18, Weller returned to Grandfather in search of more salamanders. That title belongs to Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet.Elisha Mitchell, the geologist for whom that mountain is named, Asa Gray, Horace Kephart, John Muir and Daniel Boone were all early Grandfather Mountain explorers, exclaiming its natural scenic and wild wonders.But the mountain was also rich in timber. How about climbing your way to the top? It is a testament to the Morton family, who chose not to turn that mountain into a development. The Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established by the Morton family in 2009 to operate the scenic travel attraction Grandfather Mountain in Linville, N.C. . The Nature Conservancy laid a lot of groundwork in the 1990s, the Conservation Fund came in to work on state park piece, and the Blue Ridge Conservancy is working on the finishing touches.”.The “finishing touches” include the 211-acre White Rock tract along the northeast ridge of Grandfather, which Leonard said is important because it sits on the main ridge and features rock outcrops, rare plants and dramatic views.Johnson in his book includes maps and a chapter on trail descriptions, and even a chapter on photographing the mountain. Today, the 740-acre Grandfather Mountain attraction is still privately owned and includes the Mile-High Swinging Bridge.By the 1970s many of the trails had been closed for safety reasons, Johnson said. Hugh Morton told me developers offered him substantial sums of money to build condos on MacRae Meadows (site of next week’s Grandfather Mountain Highland Games),” Leonard said.“For the land to have survived all the development pressures, that is really remarkable. You navigate through dense spruce-fir forest, to the edge of a cliff that leaves you simply dangling off Grandfather.The trail offers so much variety, even sections of the trail have their own nicknames. But the work is more about people.“If you love the Appalachians and you love Grandfather, you will see yourself in this book,” he said.The park will hold a celebration 7-9 p.m. Aug. 26 with Patrick McMillan, host of “Expeditions with Patrick McMillan” and director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden, at the Appalachian State University Library, 218 College St., Boone (Room 114). Some are so rugged and steep, including the Grandfather and Daniel Boone Scout trails, they have ladders and cables. It is the most ecologically significant mountain in the Eastern United States,” Johnson said.In the 296-page “Grandfather Mountain,” published by the University of North Carolina Press, Johnson uses his own photos as well as images from Tommy White, a High Country photographer and instructor, along with photos from Skip Sickler, Todd Bush, Helen Moss Davis and Lynn Townsend.He relies on insight from nearly 40 years working and playing on, and researching and writing about the mountain to describe its history, from escaping the Ice Age to the early 18th century explorers, to its logging days to the present day of mobilized conservation efforts, including the establishment of Grandfather Mountain State Park.“It is just wonderful because it’s a book of stories about people – those who abused the mountain and those who tried to preserve it,” said Susan Staton, a retired librarian who lives in Banner Elk and works as a docent for the Banner House Museum.“The stories of logging are so frightening because you see what might have been.

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