Community Trips
What a beautiful day! A few trees had begun to turn billiant yellows and reds with more to come. Temperature was dead-on perfect. No bug problem. Streams were still trickling over falls in some places. It's going to be hard for me to be critical about anything in this setting... synopsis:This area is part of the Talledega National Forest. My path is an out-and-back; it would be easy to put cars at both...
We drove up to the parking area in our truck and parked and hiked down the trail back to Lake Chinabee Campground. We had two vehicles so that made this really nice. The hike is pretty moderate and mostly in the backcountry. You do cross an old road no longer in use and several swimming holes. One of the highlights is Devil's Den Falls the other waypoint on the trail.
This was an out-n-back hike with only the outbound drip captured here. In mid-November most of the leaves had dropped - an occasional tree still decked out with red leaves was very appreciated. The weather was perfect and we didn't pass any other hikers between the parking lot at the beginning and the intersection with Nubbin Creek trail at the North end (indicated on my track with a photo of a wood trail...
This is the complete Nubbin Trail. I pulled it from my total hike to break it down into single a trail.
This is the complete Odum Scout Trail. I pulled it from my total hike to break it down into single a trail.