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Hikers love Grandfather Mountain. You've got streams, ladders to climb and rocks to negotiate, not to mention aircraft wreckage and absolutely tremendous views! For several years the "difficult" rating and the warning notices about danger put me off hiking Grandfather. But in the last handful of years I've hiked it 7 or 8 times, both from the Daniel Boone trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Profile trail on the other side. The painting belowq is from a spot near the "Alpine Meadow" before coming to the "Attic Window." Hikers will know this spot. We were having lunch along here one day when we noticed a small single engine airplane flying below us in the middle of the painting's view. No, I thought it best not to put the airplane in the painting! The building on the far mountain is a highrise on Sugar Mountain.