What kind of spider in NC mountains, 1" body, 3" leg span?

1" long in August:

Wolf Spiders
Hobo Spiders
Half a hundred different species of orb weaver spiders
A couple of dozen funnel web spider species

Could you be a little more specific?

No, but I do have a photo, I just don't know how to upload it here.

No, but I do have a photo, I just don't know how to upload it here.

I think you'd have to be here a bit longer to attach photos to posts, but you could put it on Facebook or Photobucket and copy/paste a link here.

Meanwhile, let me guess:

Wolf Spiders
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Hobo Spiders
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Orb weavers
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Funnel web
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Cats, is the funnel web a North Carolina spider? Oh my

cats, is the funnel web a North Carolina spider? oh my

Lots of funnel web spinners are native to Carolina. It's a family of spiders in North America unrelated to the Australian spiders. The blanket-like webs in hedges you see first thing in the morning are funnel webs.

Parttime agrees :
as I live I learn, thanks

Scared the bejabbers out of me when I first heard it, too.