Flipper Bend 12.2.17

Todays hike was a moderately strenuous hike of about 10  miles at Flippers Bend. Five hikers from the club participated in the hike which was led by Boodie Fox.

The hikers made pretty good time due to the good weather conditions.

If you would like to see some pictures, click here.  

Falling Water 11.28.17

There were 14 hikers on this Falling Water hike!  It was an absolutely beautiful day with some water flowing in the creek and also along side the trail.  Some of the hikers enjoyed the overlook and there was water over the falls.  After the hike some of the hikers went to Home Folks for a delicious lunch.   If you would like to see some really nice pictures, click here.

Raccoon Mtn. 11.25.17

Larry H. says,

Wow, what a great hike I had with the Soddy Daisy Hiking Club today leading down and around Racoon Mtn.. I had planned to solo hike today until I spoke with George B. yesterday (the best hiking buddy anyone could ask for) and he informed me of the club's intended hike leading down from Racoon Mtn. and he also threw in that it would be a new trail for me which sucked me right on in to wanting to go with them this morning.

The only thing I wasn't aware of was that the trail was shared usage with the mountain bikers. The bikers were out in force today too but we only had to yield right of way to them about 6 times or so but was glad to do it since it was exciting to watch some of them maneuver their bikes on the more technically advanced sections of the trail. My thanks goes out to the SORBA Chattanooga group that was responsible for providing these awesome trails for combined usage. On July 17, 2005, SORBA Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) entered into a land management agreement allowing SORBA Chattanooga to build and maintain mountain bike accessible trails at the TVA Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Facility.

About ten of us met at the Red Bank-Food City Parking Lot and several of us drove to the Racoon Mtn. TVA Pump Facility so we could stage our vehicles in order to prevent us from having to hike both down and then back up the mountain, although on the last leg of our journey we had a surprise ascent of about half way back up the mountain to intersect with the nearby road below us that was apparently climbing up the side of the ridge as we were heading up on the trail - Lol.

The initial trailhead led from one of the Laurel Point's parking lots and we made our way along the Laurel Point trail down to the High Voltage trailhead which became fairly steep in places as we descended almost 1500 feet in elevation. Once at the mountain's base we connected with the Live Wire 2 trailhead and proceeded to our intended destination of the parking lot across from the Live Wire 2 terminal point.

All in all we had great weather today for our hike as we completed somewhere between 7 to 8 miles of trail (my GPS showed 8.1, another hiker's GPS showed 8.2 and George's showed a little over 7 but based on my legs I felt we had done a solid 8 but maybe not - Lol). This was a little more than some would have preferred to hike today but when all was said and done it appeared everyone appreciated the weather, the trail, the fall color on many of the trees and especially the fellowship!

Happy Hiking!

If you would like to see some pictures of the hike, click here.  

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Pot Point 11.18.17

This hike was a joint hike between the Soddy Daisy Chapter and the Plateau Chapter.  There were a total of eight hikers.  Five were from the Soddy Daisy Chapter.  Deb Westervelt of the Plateau Chapter was the leader.  We thank Deb for doing such a great job.  The distance of this hike was nine miles and the hike was rated as moderate to strenuous.  The last mile being the most strenuous as it was all uphill.  The group lunched on the trail and managed to miss the rain. The rain began after the hike was completed.  If you would like to see a few pictures, click here.

Heiss Mtn. 11.11.17

There were 6 hikers on this strenuous 7.5 mile hike.  I know it was strenuous because one of the hikers told me so!  The most strenuous portion (by far) was the portion from the Little Possum Creek Bridge to the top of the adjacent mountain.  There were 5 of our club members on this hike plus one hiker from another club that occasionally hikes with us.  As we were about to begin our decent into Little Possum Gorge we ran into a previous member of our club, Larry Hill.  If you would like to see a couple additional pictures, click here.