The Etowah Trail
May 14th, 2009 by Admin 1
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 more people since spring is officially here but only ended up crossing paths w/ a few trail runners.
The volunteers and troop 241 are doing a great job on the trail and it looks like they have even broken out some more white blaze paint and continued blazes out a good bit past where I left off my last hike out there.
The Jug Creek area is still filled with water as Jon mentioned in one of his comments on my last post where it drains into the Etowah and is now a lake higher than I’ve seen it to this point.
My favorite part of this new local trail is about 1/2 mile past Jug Creek up on the ridge that passed through a Mountain Laurel thicket which are currently blooming. Just down the hill you can hear a loud stream babbling before the trail descends to the valley floor.
I got to the second big stream crossing after that and it appears the ribbons and blazes end but a small road continues on.
Anyone from Troop 241 or who knows whats next ( hint: Jon) feel free to jump in on the comments section on this post. I turned around there but would like to know whats next!
