Adventures with my cedar hiking stick
Great Smoky Mountains National Park 5.88 miles 4:43 duration 847 elevation gain Back in February, my sister Alice told me that she was planning three wildflower hikes in the Great Smoky Mountains this spring with her hiking group. The first was on a Thursday, the second on Good Friday, and the third today. Since I …
Tank Hollow Falls/Laurel Fork Falls 1.23 miles/4.03 miles :48 duration/3:08 duration 188 ft elevation gain/870 ft elevation gain 2 traditional caches, 1 earth cache (FTF) LakeBum (Rob) and I decided to hike to Laurel Fork Falls to be First to Find (FTF) on a new earth cache there recently published by our friends Cache Cracker …
Porter Creek Trail 4.88 miles 4:41 duration 755 feet elevation gain My hiking stick and I were joined by tncorgi (Mary) for a hike along the Porter Creek Trail in the Greenbriar area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This is a trail I enjoy visiting around this time each year, because the wildflowers …
Bays Mountain Park 8.69 miles 4:05 duration 783 elevation gain 5 caches found I joined Team CCJ (Dori and Tom) and other members of the Trail Friends of Bays Mountain Park this morning to do some trail maintenance on the Chestnut Trail. We worked for two hours clearing roots, rocks and other tripping hazards from …
Bays Mountain Park and Greater Kingsport 3.35 miles 3:19 duration 726 elevation gain 10 caches found, 2 visited (previously found) What today lacked in distance, it made up for in terrain and elevation gains. It was a day made up of many short jaunts through the backwoods in search of caches that we wanted to …
Persimmon Ridge Park 2.89 miles* 1:55 duration* 240 feet elevation gain* 1 CITO event 5 geocaches The hiking stick and I headed to Jonesborough on this chilly morning to attend a Cache in Trash Out (CITO) event hosted by Got Fossils? (Jerome and Carla). But first, LakeBum and I did a little caching on the …
Rocky Fork State Park 5.43 miles 3:48 duration 783 feet elevation gain 8 creek crossings 4 caches visited (previously found) 3 caches found 1 DNF As one of Tennessee's newest state parks, Rocky Fork State Park is a hidden gem. The hiking stick and I were joined once again by LakeBum (Rob) and his hiking …
Jones Falls/Elk River Falls 3.85 miles 2:55 duration 567 feet elevation change 2 caches (1 traditional, 1 Earthcache) 2 waterfalls 3 cannonballs I played hooky from work (with permission from the boss) to go hiking on an unseasonably warm February Thursday. I have visited Elk River Falls twice in the past, and had tried to …
Laurel Run Park 3.11 miles 2:56 duration 513 ft elevation gain 1 cache visited (previously found) 2 caches hidden by LakeBum We went back to Laurel Run Park on this Sunday morning for two reasons: so that LakeBum could log a special multi cache that was recently put back into play after being destroyed in …
Buffalo Mountain Park and Winged Deer Park 3.29 miles/1.45 miles 2:28 duration/1:22 duration 738 ft elevation gain/95 ft elevation gain 1 cache found/4 caches found 6 caches visited (owned or previously found at BMP) We started out the day by returning to Buffalo Mountain Park so that LakeBum could log caches on the other side …
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