[at-l] Benton McKaye & Cohutta Wilderness

["David F. Addleton" <dfa@wimlaw.com>]

I'll second your opinions about BMT and the Cohutta Wilderness. Spent last
two week-ends in the Cohutta.
We used East Cowpens to Rough Ridge to Jack's River to Sugar Cove to Rough
Ridge to East Cowpens and the return to the Three Forks Mountain parking
area.  Marvelous, beautiful, lightly traveled ... Sugar Cove offered two
lengthy, strenuous ascents, one steep descent, and a longish moderate
ascent next to a running stream, with several secluded campsites nearby.

One sees a fair number of people along Jack's River, however.

Saw abut 4 snakes, two turtles, turkey, and a very brief bear sighting near
the Three Forks trailhead. Lots of evidence of wild boar.

DFA
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> From: hopefl@juno.com
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: [at-l] Benton MacKaye Trail Revisited
> Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 1:14 AM
> 
> This is sorta AT related, if an optional trail is a related topic.
> 
> There is an article in today's Cleveland Daily Banner (that would be
> Cleveland, TN) about the 20 year project to complete the Benton MacKaye
> Trail. The Banner is online at www.clevelandbanner.com
> and the article is in the news section for June 8th.
> 
> The Benton MacKaye Trail Assoc has a website according to the article but
> it wasn't listed in the paper. I'll try to find it and send it
> along......unless Wildbill beats me to it, do your stuff Wildbill.
> 
> If anyone is interested and wants directions to the terminus in the
> Cohutta Wilderness, send me a note and I'll get that info to you. The Big
> Frog / Cohutta Wilderness area is great for several reasons, not the
> least is that not many folks know about it. Jack's River is beautiful and
> is one of two trout rivers in the area. It is easy to understand why most
> folks visit these two spots. The trails in the wildernesses range from
> moderate to strenuous to down right hard. Tearbritches Trail will test
> your metal. Mine cracked about half way up, had to use duck tape. Hopeful
> 
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