I'm always thinking about new ways to explore Townsend Mountain in Daniel Boone National Forest, Eastern Kentucky. So I was thrilled to randomly meet some other hikers on the hunt for natural stone arches in the parcel. I easily led them to two of the arches, but we never located the others. Instead we weaved through miles of massive cliffs, huge rocks, rock caves, jungles of rhododendron, abandoned buildings and mining equipment.
My GPS app eventually gave up the ghost, but my estimate is that we covered 7+ difficult miles. We walked out on an old forest service road, after scaling the side of a mountain, and climbing through rhododendron thickets at the edge of a cliff. A very fun, but exhausting adventure in the Eastern Kentucky woods.
What a shame all that mining crap was left behind. That pop top pull tab Pepsi can has got to dat back to the '70s.
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Thanks, Mike!! I'm hoping to get some additional posts going soon and revive the blog. G has deleted or removed many of my old hiking albums, unfortunately.
DeleteLooks like an open well head.
ReplyDeleteIt was! And it faintly smelled of gas.
DeleteIs that tree going to fall away from the water? That is a lot of work for those beavers.
ReplyDeleteIt's likely going to fall toward the pond, Eduardo. All the other trees they had been snacking on where leaning that way. We did see a tree that had fallen toward the lake, but got stuck in another tree on the way down. Bet that was one angry beaver!
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