Tellico Village Hikers

Tellico Village Hiking Club

Wednesday July 14, 2010
Depart at 8:00 am from the Cooper Visitors Center

Meigs Creek Trail - Splash Hike
Distance: Approximately 5 miles
Rating: Easy to Moderate with 600 feet of elevation gain
Driving Time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Leader: Ed Dorosz 408-7171

This trail follows (and crosses many times) a beautiful creek with many small cascades. We will have lunch at a lovely 20-foot waterfall about 1.5 miles up the trail as we return. While you can rock hop across the creek, we recommend that you consider bringing water shoes, sandals (not flip flops), old tennis shoes, etc. to simply wade through the creek crossings. The shoes do need to have sturdy soles to walk the trail between stream crossings. It is safer and refreshing. This is an in and out hike.

Hiking boots, and/or water shoes, and hiking stick(s) are recommended. Bring water and a trail lunch.

Tellico Village Hiking Club

Friday July 30, 2010
*** Depart at 7:00 am from the Cooper Visitors Center ***

Mt. LeConte (Alum Cave Trail)
Distance: Approximately 11 miles
Rating: Strenuous with 2600 feet of elevation gain
Driving Time: 1.75 Hours
Leader: Peggy Bastien 458-9135

Here's a link to a National Geographic article about saving fresh water animals. The story centers on a Knoxville non-profit, Conservation Fisheries, Inc and their efforts to keep some of the rarest fresh water species alive. It's a wonderful story in a remarkable National Geographic issue dedicated to water.

Check it out.

We had a beautiful day for a hike.

Here are Gail's pictures:

Turtletown Creek Hike
Pictures courtesy of Marianthe:

Snow Falls in Laurel Snow Wilderness
Distance: Approximately 7 miles
Rating: Moderate to Strenuous with 1575 feet of elevation gain
Driving Time: 1.5 Hours
Leader: Bev Hawkins 408-2410

Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness
Distance: Approximately 8 miles
Rating: Difficult/Strenuous with 800 feet of elevation gain
Driving Time: 1.5 Hours
Leader: Larry Peck 408-1677 lap44@aol.com

This trail is an undiscovered jewel through a remote, pristine pocket wilderness in the South Cumberland Plateau. The trail is one of the most interesting and beautiful trails in Tennessee, featuring scenic overlooks, waterfalls and cascades, including the Virgin Falls, where a robust stream emerges from a cave and crashes 110 feet into a sinkhole.

We decided not to hike March 26. It was cold, cloudy and threatening rain. We've rescheduled to Wednesday March 31. Leaving 8am from the visitor center.

About a dozen of us hiked East Lake Shore Trail on Friday, Feb 26, 2010. It started clear and cold but ended not so cold and sunny. This trail is always a joy to hike in the winter time. The views of Tellico Village are excellent. Kudos to the trail builders who keep the kiosks well stocked with trail information and the trail clear of hazards.

Here are some pictures. Note the dead fish. It got too cold for these fish this winter in Tennessee. They wish they had retired to Florida. The seagulls are feasting.

Due to icy conditions on Sugarland Mountain Trail, we will be hiking East Lake Shore Trail instead. See you Friday at 8am.

Pictures:

Scientists may have discovered an effective way to regrow cartilage

If you've visited this site in the last two weeks, you would have seen lots of extraneous material, links to all kinds of insurance and health and sex sites.

We've been under attack!

People from around the world, from Taiwan to Brazil to Russia to Indonesia to California have been stopping by to leave these links. I do not understand what the value is for these people to do this. Nor do I know why they chose this site from the millions of other sites out there.

On the other hand the site has had more traffic than ever and one of the spammers even left a comment to let me know they liked the site. First comment from a viewer ever! I'm sorry it was from a spammer and not a hiker.

If you visit this site and see this type of trash again please email me and let me know so I can clean it up.

Lou Miller

Meigs Mountain Trail Hike February 10 is cancelled due to lousy weather.

The Knoxville Sentinel has an interesting story on wild hogs in the national park.

The 2010 Calendar is now posted under the calendar link or go here.

It's a google/gmail calendar so if you have a google account you can link this calendar to your calendar.

Old Sugarland Trail Hike is now scheduled for January 13.

Here are two stories about couples falling in love while hiking.

A Towsend couple
A Maynardville Couple

Janice and Dexter

Pictures from the House Mountain Hike courtesy of Gail:

Curt organized an excellent overnight trip to Maggie Valley, October 27,28,29. Some folks canceled because of the rain Tuesday, but Wednesday and Thursday were beautiful, sunny and cool. The tourist towns on the east side of the Smokies are less dense than Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, more comfortable, too. But don't eat in the restaurant we ate in.

Here's some pics: