[at-l] Trip Report (sort of)

[David Addleton]

aha!
different computers display pictures differently.
on your puter it probably displayed the pic too dark: meaning the boulder
the tree root had split in half, looked on your display like a dark cave
entrance.

On 8/14/06, camojack at comcast.net <camojack at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> VERY nice. If you would, I'd like you to tell me more about that cave
> under the tree in the one picture...
> -"Camo"
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "David Addleton" <dfaddleton at gmail.com>
>
> > http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/DW4vx4pW takes you to the pics . . .
> >
> > Mountaintown Creek / Pinhoti Trail, 11-13 August 2006
> >
> > about 10 creek crossings, 5 of them required sandals to avoid wetting
> your
> > boots!
> >
> > This was a trail called "Mountaintown Creek Trail" and it just so
> happens
> > the Pinhoti joins it about half way through . . .
> >
> > It's in the southern end of the Cohutta Wilderness. We hiked in and out:
>
> > southbound in ...
> >
> > First day, Friday 11 Aug: we arrived late and walked about two miles
> > downhill to a camp site maybe 2 tenths of a mile beyond the falls.
> >
> > I brought a frozen sag gost curry for the first night . . . Phil brought
>
> > some sp iced rum . . .
>
> >
> > The next day, because of the potential for rain, we decided to day hike
> to
> > the southern end of the trail and return to the same camp, about 7 miles
>
> > round-trip . . . it did rain, and we were glad for a dry place to sleep.
> We
> > met but a single pair of trout fishermen who had day hiked to the gorge
> > below our campsite . . .
> >
> > There are some short, strenuous climbs, northbound. One's through the
> gorge
> > to where we camped; the other at the northern end at the switch back
> where
> > the trail leaves the creek and heads to FS 64.
> >
> > Phil's dog, Ketchup, kept the bears out of sight. We saw grouse, a
> squished
> > frog, lots of mushrooms, turkey, trout, a largish garden snake,
> > butterflies, deer and heard lots of birds . . .
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