[at-l] Re: Advice, please

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

I haven't done the big loop of AT/BMT/Duncan Ridge Trail although I have 
gathered bunches of info on it. I have a couple of brochures that the BMT 
fan club printed, and somewhere have the little maps sold at our local 
REI's. I gather that the AT is quite well known to us between Three Forks 
and Blood Mt. The BMT leaves the AT at the falls north of Three Forks, head 
northwest past the Toccoa gorge, and meets the Duncan Ridge trail a bit 
further. The DRT is less used and more frequently seen as overgrown and 
poorly marked. It does have a couple of road crossings on its way south and 
east back to Blood Mt. It looks like a challenging 5-7 day hike.

The BMT itself keeps going up toward the Cohutta wilderness and on into TN, 
eventually to become possibly a parallel trail to the AT on the western 
side of the Appalachains.

OrangeBug

At 11:26 AM 7/19/2001 -0400, Linda Benschop wrote:
>OK...Orange Bug.....please give me your expertise and ideas etc. about the
>Benton MacKaye!  Charles said you recently hiked that way.
>
>Hummingbird