We just returned from our vacation to Georgia.\u00a0 The weather was cold and overcast the first evening which was Sunday, March 30th.\u00a0 We got our camp site set up and had dinner and sat around the campfire and went to bed.\u00a0 It was cold let me tell ya.\u00a0 Living in Florida has really spoiled us.\u00a0 Monday we hiked the Bear Hair Gap Trail, which is 4.1 miles to the top of one of the Blood Mountain foot hills.\u00a0 We went up about 600 feet elevation on this hike and that was an eye opener.\u00a0 Again, Florida has spoiled us, we are use to hiking more miles than that, but not with a 600 foot change in elevation thrown in the mix.\u00a0 We are use to flat hiking.\u00a0 We did it though and the view was worth it all.\u00a0 Pictures just don’t show how beautiful the scenery was from the top.\u00a0 Makes you just want to sit there for hours and take it all in.\u00a0 On our way down it started to drizzle some.\u00a0 We passed a mound of rocks in a tree trunk, very interesting and nothing around to explain what it was all about, but we guessed it was just a way of other hikers to say they’d been there and done that… so we also each chose a rock and put ours there with all the others.\u00a0 I thought that was pretty cool.\u00a0 You’ll see some pics of that in the gallery.\u00a0 By the time we got back to our tent area, it was raining harder and so we just hung out in the tent for 20 minutes or so and then we were able to make dinner and clean up and sit around the campfire for awhile before going to bed, not knowing this was going to be one heck of a night.\u00a0 Rain kept coming off and on all night and about 4:30 in the morning we had to leave the tent and sleep the rest of the night in the car due to our tent leaking.\u00a0 Tuesday we spent most of the day cleaning up and going into a local town to buy a tarp to put over the tent and a few other things.\u00a0 The sun actually came out that day for awhile and it was just what we needed for our tent to dry out.\u00a0 We cooked dinner and and relaxed by the campfire before bed time.\u00a0 Wednesday was also a very nice day and the sun was out so we went around and hiked to about 3 different waterfalls (De Soto, upper and lower falls, Helton Creek Falls and Anna Ruby Falls).\u00a0 We also went into Helen and walked around the main street and looked at all the shops and had a late lunch there.\u00a0 This is a very cute little town\u00a0 and would have liked to have had more time there.\u00a0 Thursday was overcast again and cold, real cold.\u00a0 We went to Brass Town Bald but as we went up the mountain the clouds were so thick we only had about 15 foot visibility in front of us, so needless to say, we didn’t even bother getting out of the car and going to the lookout.\u00a0 We went back to our campsite and had lunch and found the weather forecast for that night and Friday and decided we’d had enough of the cold and wet and packed up and came on home.\u00a0 That was our trip.\u00a0 We really had a great time and loved the mountains and the change of scenery and will certainly go back again.\u00a0 As usual though, it’s always good to be home!!!<\/p>\n
We just returned from our vacation to Georgia.\u00a0 The weather was cold and overcast the first evening which was Sunday, March 30th.\u00a0 We got our camp site set up and had dinner and sat around the campfire and went to bed.\u00a0 It was cold let me tell ya.\u00a0 Living in Florida has really spoiled us.\u00a0 … <\/p>\n