Did you ever have one of those days! Mine started off just fine, but as soon as we started the hike I realized I had left my GPS on from the night before and the batteries were now dead. Well so much for capturing a map of this hike. Then, a little further on, I reached for my cell phone. It was not in my pocket! As you are all aware, losing a cell phone is a disaster in this day and age. Did it fall out while I was messing with my GPS? I thought I remembered it being there earlier, but not now. So for the rest of the hike I wonder where I had dropped it. So it goes...
Anyway, the hike was great and the weather was perfect. There were 14 of us on the easy 5.3 mile hike along the Ocoee River. The hike lasted 2.5 hours. We were right where the Olympic White Water event took place. The river was very low as can be seen in the attached pictures and running very clear. I broke off of the hike to accompany one of the hikers who had a blister problem and we waited at a picnic table near the river to be picked up later. Luckily they didn't forget us and when the hike was over we went to the Local Goat in Ooltewah. for lunch. Oh, I did find my phone, it was still on my dresser at home!
If you would like to see a few pictures from this hike, click here.