This is another shot that I took at Pilot Mountain in December 2006. It's a closeup of the the southwest face of Big Pinnacle.
While Big Pinnacle is certainly a signature North Carolina site, it's perhaps less of a destination. A trail encircles the base of Big Pinnacle, but climbing is not allowed, meaning that one can't actually summit Pilot Mountain. Even so, the views atop the lookouts on Pilot are stunning, and if your heart is set on summiting a rocky peak in the northern Piedmont, you can always take a short drive down the road to Hanging Rock State Park, which is best known for another monadnock, Moore's Knob, with a moderate trail to the top.
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