7/16/05 Hike (18 miles)

Because of the expectance of heavy rain (we really got wet the preceeding Wed.), the 13th's hike was held on the 16th.

I was with Mike Miller and Gary Niebart. From the Cooper Creek trailhead in NC, Cooper Creek to Deeplow Gap trail, to Indian Creek trail to Martins Gap trail to Sunkota Ridge trail to Thomas Divide and the junction of the Newton Bald and Mingus Creek trails. From there the group split. Mike Miller and I went half way down Mingus Creek to the intersection with Deeplow Gap trail and then back to Cooper Creek
and the car.

y's hike was kind of blah; this will be brief. It too started in NC relatively close to Cherokee.

Hyatt Ridge Trail--1.8 mi--it was mostly up.

Enloe Creek Trail--3.6 mi., non-descript.

Hughes Ridge Trail--2.5 mi. Since I had been on this one going South (it was North today), those miles do not count for me.

Bradley Fork Trail--5.7 mi.

Chasteen & Bradley Fork--1.2 mi. (can't count it because I did it 2 weeks ago.

Above figures seem a little low--on my pedometer it was 16.2--that is a little high.

Trail heads seldom start the same place a hike is finished; this time I was involved in driving another's car from the head to the end (we had 2 vehicles at the head and one at the finish--3 of the fastest hikers had to move cars).