Looking for trail mileage map of Cohutta.
Thanks
Looking for trail mileage map of Cohutta.
Thanks
I just got back from a 20 day backpacking trip in Cohutta and used this map---
The other good map is the Nat G 777 map of the Cohutta. These two maps show the mileages of course. The top map is hard to find since it was last printed in 1996. My source is---
https://theforeststore.com/product-c.../maps/georgia/
I'll post my trip report here on WB soon. Here's my pic link of the trip---
https://tipiwalter.smugmug.com/Backp...e-Connie-Pt-2/
Tipi do you know if there is adequate water sources along the East Cowpen Trail and the Rough Ridge Trail for a two night hike?
For others to see, I'll post my message here---
Yes, Rough Ridge has two water sources I know about and both flow right across the trail. The first (not counting Rough Ridge Creek at the bottom) is in Crooked Dogwood Camp, a FANTASTIC place to camp---with a spring. As you head south on Rough Ridge there's a spring/creek right before reaching its end at the Cowpen jct.
I camped once on Cowpen by the Panther Creek trailhead ("Panther Top") and if you look at the map (a good map) you'll see the headwaters to Thomas Creek coming close to the high start of the Panther trail. I camped in Panther Top and dayhiked it off the Panther trail to this source. But remember, it's been sort of dry lately---although the spring atop Frog Mt is flowing.
Hope this helps, Tipi
The other good map is the Nat G 777 map of the Cohutta. These two maps show the mileages of course. The top map is hard to find since it was last printed in 1996. My source is---
https://theforeststore.com/product-c.../maps/georgia/
152 copies of the map remain in the store....
after my purchase last night....
I went to the Cherokee NF headquarters in Cleveland, TN and they never even heard of this map. And yet it has the Big Frog on it!!!
Another good resource on the Cohutta/Big Frog...
Although TW will be able to comment more on its accuracy than me! Also available at REI, perhaps Amazon as well.
I have both Homan books, the Cohutta one and the Citico/Slickrock one. I used both when I first started backpacking each area and so I don't have anything bad to say about him. Although . . . in his Citico book he spends too much time describing plants and trees and not near enough time pointing out hidden spring sources or if a certain campsite fills with water in a rainstorm or what's the wind like on this or that knob or a hundred other details.
I don't believe he spent enough time in each area to do it justice---and heck I'm still learning things about these mountains. And like with any trail guide, it needs to be updated with hands-on trail reviews from year to year. For example, the hemlock die-off blight completely obliterated the Upper Slickrock Trail #42 (Nutbuster!) and yet is there any mention of this in his book?
Last edited by Tipi Walter; 10-08-2017 at 08:54.