After spending an hour watching several weather channels, Saturday morning and calling the Ranger station at Ozone Falls, I was still having a hard time determing whether to cancel the hike or not. Each forcast predicted rain, but some also predicted scattered storms. So I discussed it with my fellow hiker and decided we would take a chance. We also decided to skip staging our vehicles and do and in and out hike from Ozone Falls instead of Black Mountain trailhead to Ozone Falls trailhead. So two of us left Soddy Daisy and met another hiker at the Ozone Falls trailhead. We departed the trailhead a little after 10 and enjoyed the Falls on the beginning of the hike, instead of the end. Rain was suppose to start at noon, but arrived and hour early at 11. We were an hour into the hike and continued toward Black Mountain until we turned around at noon. It rained continuously once it started, which made for a slippery trail. We safely exited the trail a little past 1 pm. Instead of a 6.7 mile strenous hike, we did a 4.2 mile not quite strenuous hike. There were days this summer, when I prayed for a rain like the one we had Saturday.
If you would like to see some pictures of this hike including a trail map, click here.
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