Hotwater Road (Cumberland Trail)

1.6.12  Nance Jo, Earl  Today was scheduled to be a workday on the Cumberland Trail.  We arrived early before Tony Hook and his gang of workers, so we decided to go ahead and do some blazing with the new plastic markers.  It was a fantastic day for hiking with the temperature in the upper 50s.  We marked the trail in both directions going about 2.4 miles in before we ran low on markers.  We then hiked out for a total of 4.8 miles.  Tony Hook's crew has built a boardwalk over one of the wetter sections of the trail.  The boardwalk is not quite finished, but will be next time the crew goes out.  This will be in about one week.  For a few pictures, click here or on the Hotwater Road tab above.