Francis Marion National Forest

The shift to daylight savings brought an early Lowcountry glimpse of spring; in contrast nor’easters continued to pummel the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. My hiking buddy Brantley Arnau and I headed off to walk the Awendaw Passage in Francis Marion National Forest (FMNF). And we had lots of company:

The walk down the forest road passed between pine forest on the left, and pines mixing with hardwoods grading down to swampland on the right.