The quartzite on

Pilot Mountain

makes energy

when you put

pressure

on it.

It is reported in newspapers, magazines and journals that the Big Pinnacle (R) of Pilot Mountain is made of 99% pure quartzite. However, botany studies in the 1930s and 1940s determined the entire mountain has a foundation of quartzite.

The Dolman Pictures documentary crew were intrigued by these quartzite slabs (R) found below the Pilot Knob Trail on the north side of the Big Pinnacle. Looking forward to having some of the international journalists discuss if that is a huge dolman that might fit six to eight people within it.

Is this a cairn (R) for a giant? The Cherokee when they first came to this general area termed it, “the land of the giants.”

Massive quartzite slabs (L) are found here far from the Big Pinnacle. Through the trees you can make out the Big Pinnacle in the center of the image.

This is a sort of reenactment (L) of what Daniel Boone might have done overlooking the Yadkin River to see where the massive herds of bison, deer and bear were. It is certainly a curious perch and it is said sermons have been preached at that spot in the 1800s.

The 3,000 square mile area around Pilot Mountain used to be tended by fire each year to encourage it to be a savannah or grassland. The hunting was so good here that tribes from the Great Lakes and even New York traveled down the trading paths to hunt here.

There is an alcove on the south side of the Big Pinnacle where you can talk in your normal voice and it is transferred down to the Bucksnort Subdivision about a mile below in Pinnacle, North Carolina. There is a room in the UNC-Chapel Hill planetarium that does this same thing with voices, only on a smaller scale.

There is a 16 acre flat area on the pyramid side of Pilot Mountain. The locals call it Chestnut Flats. This image (L) was taken at noon on the spring equinox. It is very curious that the shadow of the tree goes right over the cut in the quartzite slab at that particular time of day on the equinox.

Wake Forest University, in nearby Winston-Salem, NC, has been studying the large deer population on Pilot Mountain for years with heat sensitive drones at night.

It is common to see large trees on the trails toppled over like this because the quartzite foundation is so close to the surface. There is less than a foot of soil in this area for the roots of the trees. In nearby Mt. Airy, the foundation of the town is granite and there is very little topsoil for lawns. Mt. Airy is the home of the largest open air granite quarry in the world it should be noted.