Some more really weird looking trees. The first two started separate, about 6" apart, then entwined twice before separating again to continue on singly...then the ever present funnel web with a caught mass of leaves...and finally, the weirdest looking bark on a tree I have ever seen. About 6' up the tree, it looked like someone had wrapped barbed wire around it, pulled it taught, then removed it. The result was this "look" of hundreds if not thousands of tiny holes, symetrically spaced up and down, up to nearly the top of the tree...finally, the sign of the AT and the BMT and my walking stick. Bought it our first day here at the Blue Ridge Arts Festival...never used one before, but won't hike again without it...