Pickett State Park 4.20.2024

 A full day of adventure… that’s the best way to describe our hike of the Hidden Passage Trail! 5 Scenic City members joined by one Plateau chapter member made the long road trip up to Pickett State Park for an incredible hike with a ‘Wow’ around nearly every turn. Half of the group decided to hike the shorter route… but still got in 7.5 miles of hiking & saw the beautiful Crystal Falls, a “hidden passage” through the rocks, a small arch, huge rock shelters, amazing rock formations, & took in beautiful views from Thompson Overlook. The other hikers decided to tackle the whole trail plus two side spur trails… racking up their total miles for the day to 11.5! They saw all the same sights listed above but also saw an additional waterfall, Double Falls, and experienced a real adventure… walking through an unfinished, abandoned railroad tunnel. The tunnel is huge & required our hikers to wear a headlamp or use a flashlight to see their way through. Pickett State Park never disappoints, & the Hidden Passage Trail is a great example of that. It was a great day with a great group!!

Today’s hikers were:  Jennifer Davis (hike leader), Tom McElhone, Tim Booth, Rita Wilpers, Jason Knutson, & Celia DeLeon Suarez (Plateau Chapter)

If you would like to see some very nice pictures taken during this hike, click here.  

Never trust a train, they have Loco Motives.

Far Enough Trail 4.23.2024

 This hike was a little different than most of our hikes.  Half of the hike involved a walk through parts of Saint Elmo to look at the architecture of the old houses, most of which have been remodeled.  Seventeen of us met at Food City in Saint Elmo and walked from there.  It was a short walk through town to the trailhead of Far Enough Trail.  This trail is very new and few of us had hiked it before.  The distance hike on this day was 3.56 miles with a time of 2 hours and 19 minutes to our lunch.  We averaged 2.0 mph on this hike which is not bad.  The Far Enough Trail was beautiful and led us past some monstrous boulders which was very interesting.  Part way through the hike we intercepted the Guild Trail which we followed under the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway and then we took another trail back down the mountain to Saint Elmo.  There we walked sidewalks to the Purple Daisy Cafe which is one of our favorite stopping places.  Beautiful day for a hike!

If you would like to see some pictures taken during this hike including maps and an altitude graph, click here.  

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