6/1/2010 Bartram Trail – Bob Gap – Dicks Creek Falls, GA

HIKERS – Greta Driggers, Jim Driggers, Pam Euliss, Bill Hunt, Jack Jacobi, Dick Metzgar, Donna Presley, Tony Presley, Vic Robson, Dan Ross, Pom Sinnock.

TRAIL INFO. This portion of the Bartram Trail is very nice with mountain views in winter, great views of the Chattooga River and Dicks Creek Falls, beautiful mixed forest, all on a very well marked and maintained trail. The terrain is rolling and we consider it to be moderately difficult.

Total hiking distance today – 8.2 miles

Directions: Take Warwoman Road 5.9 miles from Clayton and turn right on Sandy Ford Road. Cross the bridge turn left toward Dicks Creek then shortly turn right on Poole Creek Rd then 0.9 miles to Bob Gap.

Another great day for a hike! Partly Cloudy and very warm and humnid with temperatures ranging from 68 to 83 degrees F.

FLOWERS IN BLOOM: Tall Bluet, Common Milkweed, Small Spreading Pogonia Orchid, Ragwort, Milkwort, Yellow Stargrass, Spotted Wintergreen, Goat’s Rue, Wild Quinine, Galax, Rattlesnake Plantain, Whorled Loosestrife, Partridgeberry, Yellowroot, Tassel Rue, Mountain Laurel, Catawba Rhododendrun, Sweet Azalea, New Jersey Tea, Bull Thistle and Indian Pipes.

BIRDS IDENTIFIED: Dark-headed Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Black and White Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Hooded Warbler, Tufted Titmouse, Scarlet Tanager, Ovenbird, Rosebreasted Grosbeak, White-breasted Nuthatch, Northern Cardinal, Broad-winged Hawk and Pileated Woodpecker.

OTHER FAUNA: King Snake and an Eastern Fence Lizard.