View Full Version : How do you get to Hangover in Joyce Kilmer?
Hikerhead
08-09-2006, 20:23
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Can you get here from Big Flat Gap?
Frolicking Dinosaurs
08-09-2006, 21:38
How to get there from Robbinsville: http://www.main.nc.us/graham/hiking/hangoversouth.html (http://www.main.nc.us/graham/hiking/hangoversouth.html)
Map of area: http://www.tapocolodge.com/slickrock/slickrockmap.html
Below are the trail numbers for the map above
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Trail #43 is designated a National Recreation Trail that traverses a rare eastern stand of virgin forest. It is a 2 mile figure eight loop rated as easy.
Slickrock Creek Trail #42 is 13.0 miles of combination backtrack, loops and through trails rated moderate to extremely strenuous. Good area for backpack camping trips and stream fishing.
*Ike Branch Trail #45 is a 2.2 mile trail connecting with the Slickrock Creek Trail at two locations. This trail is rated easy to moderate.
*Nichols Cove Branch Trail #44 is 3.1 mile trail connecting with the Slickrock Creek Trail. This trail is rated easy to moderate.
*Big Fat Branch Trail #41 is a 1.4 mile trail connecting the Slickrock Creek Trail and the Nichols Cove Branch Trail . It is rated easy to moderate.
Naked Ground Trail #55 is a 5.7 mile backtrack or loop that is rated as moderate to very strenuous.
Hangover Lead South Trail #56 and *Hangover Lead North Trail #56
*Deep Creek Trail #46
*Locust Ridge Trail #401
*Big Fat Branch Trail #41
*Windy Gap Trail #400
*Yellowhammer Gap Trail #49
*Ike Branch Trail #45
Hikerhead
08-09-2006, 22:19
Outstanding!!! Those are some great links too. Thanks!
Tipi Walter
08-10-2006, 01:41
From Big Fat Gap there is really only one trail that will take you to the Hangover and that is the Hangover Lead South trail which leaves the parking area and climbs steeply up to a pretty gap which is also level and climbs again to reach the main ridge where a left turn will take you to the Hangover and a right to Haoe Peak and Naked Ground gap.
An indirect but scenic way would be to descend from Big Fat Gap down to Slickrock creek and at the numerous trail signs and junctions turn left and go upstream on the upper Slickrock trail which is known as one of the hardest trails in the southeast. I would like to describe this trail in more detail but I just don't have the time.
Eventually this mean but mystical trail reaches Naked Ground gap where a left will take you to the Hangover.
well if you want to talk about a mean way to go how about going up Haoe Lead Tr. to Deep Creek Tr. and up to Hangover on a hot day - that has got to hurt
Tipi Walter
08-10-2006, 13:06
well if you want to talk about a mean way to go how about going up Haoe Lead Tr. to Deep Creek Tr. and up to Hangover on a hot day - that has got to hurt
Yes, there is no easy way to get to the Hangover and in these current sultry summer temperatures the usual sweaty backpacking trip to the high ground becomes a strange combination of hot flesh, spinning head and sour stomach. Actually, there is an easy way to get to the Hangover by way of the Wolf Laurel/Stratton Ridge trails but let us not even discuss it as it'll just encourage the tourists.