Date: 02/13/2024 Name: Victoria Bryant State Park Trails Distance: 6.8 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 771 Type: Loop Notes: Victoria Bryant State Park has a very nice network of hiking trails. The Perimeter Trail Loop, The Broad River Loop, Victoria’s Path Nature Trail along with connector and access trails. All together around 10 miles to […]
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Date: 02/20/2024 Name: Warwoman Dell to Pinnacle Knob Distance: 9.5 Difficulty: Difficult Total Climbing Elevation: 1,850 Type: Out & Back Notes: Twenty-six total hikers with 10 hiking to the top of Pinnacle Knob. AllTrails Link: Warwoman Dell to Pinnacle Knob Additional Search Terms: February
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Date: 02/06/2024 Name: Bartram Trail – Earl's Ford to Dick's Creek Falls Distance: 5.5 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 705 Type: Out & Back Notes: The hike to Dicks Creek Falls was a success with the river and the falls rushing as the water level was high. We had 20 hikers today. AllTrails
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Date: 01/30/2024 Name: Hidden Falls & Long Mountain Fire Tower Distance: 5.7 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 659 Type: Out & Back Notes: The hike to hidden falls was a great hike. We had 16 hikers and a beautiful day. We hiked down to hidden falls and back to the intersection with the
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Date: 01/16/2024 Name: West Three Forks Trail from John Teague Gap Distance: 3.6 Difficulty: Moderate to Difficult Total Climbing Elevation: 915 Type: Out & Back Notes: After hiking the Holcomb Creek Falls Trail, we took off again on this wonderful winter hike with cool temperatures and partly cloudy skies. These trails were also in good
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Date: 01/16/2024 Name: Holcomb Creek Falls Trail Distance: 2.1 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 502 Type: Loop Notes: Wow! What a great hike to see some beautiful waterfalls with lots of noisy, rushing water just a few days after significant rains. The trail was in mostly good condition, having only a few passable blowdowns. This
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Date: 01/02/2024 Name: Thompson River via Foothills Trail Distance: 7.4 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,358 Type: Out & Back Notes: A great day for our first hike of 2024 on a cold and clear day. This hike was last completed by the Old Friends Hiking Club on May 4, 2010. The trail was in
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Date: 12/19/2023 Name: Helen to Unicoi Bottoms Trail Distance: 5.9 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 607 Type: Out and Back Notes: An easy hike on a sunny day with a cold, 24 degrees, start. The trail was dry and in good shape although we did encounter one large blowdown across the trail from the high
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Date: 12/12/2023 Name: Frady Branch Loop and Waterfalls near Currahee Mtn/Toccoa, GA Distance: 5.5 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 741 Type: Loop Notes: This was an easy hike on a sunny and cool, late fall day. Despite being a multi-use trail for hiking, biking and horses and recent widespread rains, the trail was mostly dry
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Date: 12/05/2023 Name: AT – Dick's Creek Gap to Deep Gap Shelter near Hiawassee, GA. Distance: 8.4 Difficulty: Moderate to Difficult Total Climbing Elevation: 2,139 Type: Out and Back Notes: It was a cool, 37-47 degrees, but mostly sunny day with moderate winds on the north slopes and gaps meaning we kept our coats and
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