Date: 01/28/2025 Name: Coosa Backcountry- Bear Hair Trail Loop Distance: 6.7 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1634 Type: Loop Notes: This was a moderately difficult hike with "just right" weather, sunny skies and temperatures between 34°F and 44°F. The trails are in fair condition showing heavy use and some left-over blowdowns from Hurricane Helene. This […]
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Date: 01/21/2025 Name: Latham Cemetery & Pear Orchard Loop 1 Star 2 Stars 3 Stars 4 Stars 5 Stars Distance: 5.8 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 696 Type: Loop Notes: For our "all-weather" hikers, it was a "great day for a hike" even though we had cloudy skies and temperatures between 26°F and 31°F. Parts
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Date: 01/14/2025 Name: Don Carter State Park Loop Trail Distance: 6.6 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 689 Type: Loop Notes: A wonderful hiking day on another cold, but sunny winter day. This hike was a combination of several smaller trails in Georgia's newest state park. Access, facilities ,and trails at this park are excellent. The
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Date: 01/07/2025 Name: Sassafras Circle Trail at Tugaloo State Park Distance: 4.3 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 381 Type: Loop Notes: This was a nice way to start the year with an easy hike at Tugaloo State Park. The weather was as forecast with sunny skies and cool winter temperatures between 34 °F and 44
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Date: 12/27/2024 Name: Tabor Falls Distance: 2.41 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 308 Type: Out & Back Notes: It was a cool, but cloudy day for a brief hike just after Christmas. This is a trail and falls we have not been to before. As noted by other hikers, the first section of
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Date: 12/03/2024 Name: Bartram Trail – SC Hwy 28 to beyond Adline Ford Distance: 7.1 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 499 Type: Out & Back Notes: It wasn't as cold as forecasted with sunny skies and most temperatures in the lower 40's with no wind. Thanks again to the many volunteers that cleared the Bartram
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Date: 11/26/2024 Name: Sourwood Trail at Lake Russell Distance: 4.2 Difficulty: Easy Total Climbing Elevation: 390 Type: Loop Notes: It was a good day for a hike with mild, 60 degree temperatures and mostly sunny skies. Despite some mixed postings by USFS about the trails being open or closed and the gate to Nancytown Picnic
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Date: 11/12/2024 Name: Chicopee Backcountry Loop Trail Distance: 7.3 Difficulty: Easy to Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 902 Type: Loop Notes: This hike is actually a combination of the Backcountry, Bridge Loop and Lake Loop trails. We could not beat this location and weather today for a "great hike." With mild, 50 to 65 degree temperatures
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Date: 10/29/2024 Name: Standing Indian Mountain via Deep Gap Distance: 5.6 Difficulty: Moderate Total Climbing Elevation: 1,175 Type: Out & Back Notes: We were a bit late for much fall color, but it was still a good hike with ideal cool and clear weather. FS71 to Deep Gap was clear and in very good condition.
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Date: 10/22/2024 Name: Coosa Bald & North Coosa Backcountry Loop Trail Distance: 8.5 Difficulty: Difficult Total Climbing Elevation: 1,867 Type: One-Way Notes: Today, we had continuing mild and sunny weather with early signs of fall. However, the extended dryness and near freezing weather in this area left quite a few leaves over a mostly unobstructed,
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