Date: 05/11/2021 Name: Sosebee Cove & Coosa Backcountry Trail Distance: 8.2 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 550 Type: Loop then Out & Back Notes: A super day for a hike with perfect weather. The trail was in good condition even after substantial rains a couple of days prior. Our tour of Sosebee Cove […]
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Date: 04/23/2021 Name: Standing Indian Mountain via Deep Gap Distance: 5.1 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 876 Type: Out & Back Notes: A really beautiful day for a hike with clear skies and temperatures between 55-75°F The trail is moderately difficult. It was in good condition and well used, but it is quite rocky and
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Date: 04/20/2021 Name: Lake Russell-Nancy Town Lake Loop Distance: 5.3 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,175 Type: Loop Notes: Another nice day for a hike with clear skies and temperatures between 55-70. The trail is in better condition than recent reviews by AllTrails hikers with only a couple of minor fallen trees across the trail
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Date: 04/16/2021 Name: Yonah Preserve – Creek Trail, Sequoyah's Return and Cherokee Trail Distance: 6 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 440 Type: Loop Notes: Another good day for a hike with sunny skies and temperatures between 50-75 . The trail was dry and in good condition. We had 16 hikers today. This was the second
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Date: 04/06/2021 Name: Black Rock Lake Trail Distance: 0.9 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 26 Type: Loop Notes: A really nice day for a hike, but the trail was not in the best of condition with lots of washouts and wet areas along the west shoreline. A few but not a lot of wildflowers as
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Date: 04/06/2021 Name: Tennessee Rock Trail Distance: 3.3 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 679 Type: Loop Notes: A very pleasant day for a hike. The trail was dry, but is heavily used and could use some maintenance and removal of some blowdown. We started our hike from the Trading Post on the Springhouse Trail which
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Date: 03/30/2021 Name: Reedy Branch Falls Distance: 0.4 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 49 Type: Out & Back Notes: This was a bonus hike today suggested by Dick Metzgar on our way back from hiking the Winding Stairs Trail. Jenny did a little research and found a short article on it on the discoversouthcarolina.com web
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Date: 03/30/2021 Name: Winding Stairs Trail Distance: 4.8 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 955 Type: Out & Back Notes: A really nice hike with the trails dry and in good condition with just a few deadfalls to climb under, over or around. The the hike from the trailhead is almost totally downhill with
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Date: 03/23/2021 Name: Chatooga River Trail from US 76 Distance: 6.4 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 889 Type: Out & Back Notes: A nice hike today with mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 50's and lower 60's. The trail is in good condition overall with the exception of a bridge out at
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Date: 03/09/2021 Name: Northern Section of the Willis Horse Trail to Burrell Mtn. Distance: 4.7 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 928 Type: Out & Back Notes: An easy hike today on a section of the Willis Horse Trail we have not hiked before. The trail is in pretty good condition considering it is a horse
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