Today, we hiked the West side of Lookout Mountain. We started on the Lower Truck Trail for about .45 miles to the old Blue Beaver Trail. This trail climbs .73 miles to the Skyuka trail with a few rocks which can be easily avoided. Here we turned right on a very nice footpath for 2.6 miles on a mostly gentle downslope to Skyuka Springs. After a stop here to enjoy the springs, we returned by way of the Lower Truck Trail , a very flat and easy walk along Lookout Creek. The distance of this hike turned out to be 6.44 miles and I would rate it as moderate. The only moderate part was a 1.3 mile climb at the beginning. There were 17 happy hikers on this hike and after the hike we sort of split up and went to different eateries in St. Elmo. My group ate at the Purple Daisy which was very good.
If you would like to see some pictures, click here. Note that at the end of the pictures is a map of where we hiked and a graph showing how steep the initial climb was. Hope you like it as it took me hours to figure out how to do it!!
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