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 and in good condition with a few wet spots. Some of us did visit the three waterfalls we were seeking on an unnamed tributary of Mill Creek. These are accessible with some bushwhacking and scrambling down through some rocky, brushy and steep embankments. These falls are best found off an old "jeep trail" paralleling the Frady Branch Trail. While there was not much water flowing, it was good to find the Staircase, Roughshot and Little Beauty Falls which would be difficult to locate in the growing season. Just above these three falls we also found a low, constructed rock dam. Lastly, on the way up to Latham Road, there is a very impressive large rock formation overlooking the trail that our long-time hiker and geologist, Dr. Bruce O'Connor, described previously as, "Impressive cliffs of white granite crop out on the west side of the trail at the SW corner of the loop."
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