Hiking in Cloudland Canyon State Park, GA | January 2023 The morning of our last full day around Chattanooga was supposed to be rainy, so we decided the night before that we would sleep in and be productive in the morning, then spend the afternoon hiking at a nearby state park. It seemed like a…
DeSoto Falls State Park, Alabama | Little River Canyon National Preserve | January 2023 On our second day in the Chattanooga area, we awoke to temps in the 20s and frost on the ground. We bundled up for today’s adventures and once the frost was scraped from the car, we got on the road and…
Visiting Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | January 2023 Just South of Chattanooga and the Tennessee River rises the imposing mass that is known as Lookout Mountain. This mountain (which is actually more a plateau) was the centerpiece of all of our day trips while staying in Chattanooga, so it’s worth talking about at…
Amicalola Falls State Park | Fort Mountain State Park | January 2023 Just as predicted, Sunday was a cold and rainy day. If we had already been in our next rental house, we probably would’ve just taken the day to relax, but we couldn’t check in until after 3. That gave us 8 hours to…
Hiking Rabun Mountain | Panther Falls | Tallulah Gorge State Park | January 2023 Today was our one full day in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, and we went into it with a few specific goals in mind. We wanted to visit every county on the Northern border (our maps would look weird if…
Tellico Plains, TN to the Georgia Blue Ridge Mountains | Hiking Blood Mountain | DeSoto Falls Recreation Area | January 2023 On Friday morning, it was time to leave our cabin in Tellico Plains and move on. We had found a rental house near Chattanooga, TN that was very affordable and had everything we look…