There are a few different reasons I've heard for concern about the road. The first is that the north-looking view from Cheoah Bald (not the bald itself but the opposite side with the sweet view of...
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There are a few different reasons I've heard for concern about the road. The first is that the north-looking view from Cheoah Bald (not the bald itself but the opposite side with the sweet view of...
Here's the link to the original article:
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2010/01/road-proposal-stirs-controversy-along-appalachian-national-scenic-trail5214
So here's a fun game: how many posts before this thread devolves into a discussion of gun rights?
I bet 3 more after this. :banana:banana:banana
It's gonna be cold. Then again, it could be warm. Or raining. Or snowing. Or all of the above within a 30 min. time period. Regardless, it'll be worth it.
You've got a slimy salamander - one of the most common salamanders in the East. There are actually something like 14 species of slimy salamander now since Richard Highton split one species into a lot...
If he's in the woods, I'd bet he's staying off the AT and is somewhere isolated...there are some way back places in north GA and NC where you wouldn't look for a car.
BRO is a sweet magazine. Really, nothing else is filling that niche in the South right now.
I've parked there for 4 days once with no problems...but you're always at your own risk with that stuff.
The Pinhoti isn't the AT, but it's still an awesome trail, especially if you're looking for solitude (along some sections). Growing up practically on the AT in north GA and now living in Alabama,...
Amen, Engine! If you don't like the rules, suck it up and don't stay there. People at any hostel are letting you use their property, for goodness sake. If they think you're breaking their rules (and...
Whoa. This turned into a philosophical meeting of the minds quickly....
They're calling for a major severe weather outbreak now that should at least into the lower parts of the North Ga Mtns. The chance of long-track tornadoes is being thrown around. Everybody take it...
Saw mounds in Hogpen Gap (well over 3,000 feet) in GA this summer. First time I've seen them at that elevation...:eek:
I agree, Sly, but Les does go out of his way to make his situation as realistic as someone who would actually get lost...and most likely someone getting lost would be overpacked but without a...
I'm sure they're in the Jocassee area, but I've never seen any there. I'd rather run into a bear than I hog, though. I've run across both, and hogs are the only ones I've seen not to immediately run...
Four words: hike your own hike. People have done it with and without maps and there are risks (different ones) involved with both. End of discussion.
I think the switch-over took place sometime last year, so it sounds like it might have changed. I know people had a massive freakout when the private company took it over. I'd much rather help pay...
My first grouse encounter was on the Benton MacKaye just north of the Toccoa River Bridge. It shot out of a laurel thicket at us, popped up about head level with my fiance, let out a giant squawk,...
I don't know what the status of it is at the moment, but a while back the USFS had given over the 441 trailhead to a private contractor that was charging some exorbitant price just to park and hike...
Anyone else have to change their pants every time they flush a grouse? I must have run up on a million of them, but it gets me every time...
I echo Coosa Backcountry...but do it all in one day (and ignore the posted warnings against it). It's not the hands-down hardest trail around, but you'll be absolutely done by the time you finish the...
Sweet. Knowing development these days, that could've easily become another high-end subdivision otherwise. Way to go, NC! :banana
Very good idea! Like a rotisserie potato, almost. :banana
......and thus this thread devolved into personal attacks too. Blah.
This seems to be a big point brought up multiple times in this thread, that WB exists solely as a place for an exchange of info on the AT. Many seem to express the opinion that anything (and I mean...