You meet the nicest people on the trail, and today we enjoyed a two-mile hike on Strawberry Mountain with Keith and Sheila. We drove Manning Mill Road to where the Pinhoti Trail turns off toward Strawberry Mountain, then we drove All Wheel Drive across two concrete fords on Forest Service Road 227 to where the Pinhoti Trail crosses. From there we hiked the Pinhoti Trail down to the partially overgrown overlook and took a group photo, then we hiked up to the high point of the Pinhoti Trail where the ladies stayed on trail while Keith and I followed an unmaintained trail to the ridge line. Keith returned to the Pinhoti Trail while I did a light to moderate bushwhack to the peak and back down to the Pinhoti Trail.