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Posted in Etowah Trail System, Events in the Southeast, Trail Running on Feb 14th, 2012
Attention all you trail runners in the North Georgia area! While at Boling Park running the trails recently I noticed an event announcement for the 2012 Trail Run Series presented by Nature Strides. This event will be great for kids of all ages. Post race snacks, custom race shirts and series awards available. Kids race [...]
Posted in Etowah Trail System, Hikes on Jan 11th, 2011
I have to commend troop 241 for their most recent maintenance on the boling park trails especially just beyond the large bridge near the end of the parks running/walking track.
We’ve been running and hiking in the area throughout the year. A few weeks ago during one of our runs we noticed they were removing downed [...]
Posted in Etowah Trail System, Hikes on Oct 21st, 2010
We have been trail running and hiking the Etowah Trails throughout most of the year. During the summer it gets pretty brutal with the humidity, clearing spider webs and crossing paths with snakes. Now that Fall is here there is a lot less undergrowth encroaching into the trails and since more people are getting out [...]
Posted in Etowah Trail System, Hikes on May 14th, 2009
Its been busy lately but I finally got to go on a quick hike. I took a couple hours yesterday to check out the progress on the Etowah Trail in Canton. We had another little break in all the rain we’ve been getting so it ended up being a nice one. I expected to see [...]
Posted in Etowah Trail System, Hikes on Mar 18th, 2009
The trails at Boling Park have just about all been clearly marked with new blazes over the past couple months thanks to the BSA Troop 241 and if you haven’t checked them out do it sometime. Note: the blue blazed/ribbon trail beginning at the back end of the parks main walking paths does not really [...]
