Kevin Bae: It is Thursday, May 2, Godfrey and I are back on the
trail. And we're at Kennedy Creek, the candidate Creek to
Big Creek Falls Trail near DeLanda. It's actually sort of
near Salonika, Georgia, supposed to be an easy hike about two and
a half miles long. And it's a beautiful spring day, it's warm
in the 60s, supposed to get up into the upper 80s Today in all
these parts of North Georgia, but hopefully we have a really
nice hike. See what this is all about. Right off the bat, we've
got problems because the alltrails app, they've made
changes to it that just really stink. So I think I might have
to find another trail app. It's difficult. It doesn't it doesn't
know how to describe it. But it used to be almost like Turn,
turn by turn navigation like like in your car. But now it's
very difficult to see exactly which direction you're moving
in. And it's hard to find obscure trail heads that are not
marked, you know, where there's no sign. So you start walking in
a direction and you think you're going the right way. And then
you go look after a couple of minutes and no, you're not going
the right way. So I started off just a couple of minutes down
the trail, but I could tell something was not right. So
we're going to try different direction. Okay, so it looks
like I have found the trail as it as it is marked on all on the
all trails app. It's really just the same road I was driving on.
You know, it's kind of a rough road here. But I think now I'm
on track. And hopefully the rest of the trail is much easier to
follow even though this is marked easy. As you could see
the trail is not difficult here. We'll see. So early on in the
trail here, I'm across these, what looks like old grain silos,
of course have been graffitied. There's like a tree fallen off
the hill onto the roof. All right, Godfrey. Let's keep
going. So I just remembered turn off the noise canceling function
of my wireless microphone. Want to see if that sounds better I
think on the last hike this sort of sounded too compressed and
like I was in a tunnel so hopefully this is just more
natural sounding and catches more of the birds and whatever
other sounds that are out here
some head polls inside there's like some divots in the trail
where looks like Jeeps or ATVs come through here. Make deep
ruts so there's lots of tadpoles in the water swimming around
so this is not a cut trail at least through this part. It's
just tall grass. You can sort of see where some cars have driven
through here but it's uncut looks like continues to normal
trail after a small stretch of grass
so I'm guessing this is Canada creek goes right alongside the
trail here it's a very small trail. Almost like a almost like
a wildlife trail. But it's clear that enough people walk on this
thing to keep it well tread
pick up the sound of the stream now. Or the creek
Okay, looks like there's a way to get down there, at least
there's sort of a side trail, it goes off, you've got 123 small
waterfalls, I'm gonna see if I can get down there at least and
get a picture of something. All right, we made it down it's very
cool. So I got to the movies
another stream crossing, little bit bigger than the last one,
but still very easy to pass. Don't even get your feet wet.
No. Now you look at this over here, it's very hard to see
where the trail goes. We are off the designated trail. I'm sort
of moving parallel to it. But we are off of it. And I can't
exactly tell where to go back. To meet it. I'm on a trail of
some sort. It's very wide, so must be part of some other some
other trail but I'm gonna walk up a bit and see if this somehow
takes me to an area where I can meet up where I'm supposed to be
so either the map is incorrect. The GPS is incorrect.
Something's incorrect, but I appear to be backwards supposed
to be I think if you just trust that you need to follow the
creek candidate Creek at least to to a certain point. And you
should be okay. Okay, there's something blocking the trail, a
sign of some sort strung between two trees, no trespassing
private property. So apparently I was on private property and
didn't know it. Well, try not to make that same mistake on the
way back I apologize for being on your property. We continue
on. Okay, so it dawned on me when I was on the other side of
the sign it was actually upside down, which means that the area
that I want to go to apparently is private property. And the
area that I was on was fine. So I'm not sure what to do from
this point, I'm going to check the trail map and see what I can
do. So I went a little bit further past the private
property sign. But it didn't seem like it follows the trail
map on all trails. And I couldn't see any visible sign of
where the trail might go to stay on the designated trail. And I
don't recommend I mean this is Georgia so private property
rights are pretty strong and everybody has a firearm. So I
don't recommend going too far past any private property sign.
So I'm going to backtrack a little bit and see if maybe I
can't pick up some alternate way to get to where I want to go see
what happens
so there's no no way that I see to get to where I need to go I
need to go this way up there up this hill but there's no no
discernible trail. There's a trail going off in this
direction back across the stream, which is not on the mark
trails. But I'm just gonna go that way a little bit and see
what we're brings me after we cross the stream this part of
the trail looks like people ride dirt bikes, motorcycles. At
least that's what the wear pattern on the trail looks like
to me. So the side trails pretty uneventful. There's a really
small stream that follows it. But it's it's a nice enough
Trail and the woods deep in the woods here. But it's clear that
many people come here, at least not today, because I'm walking
through all the spider webs now. But I'm mainly just walking this
now for some distance, you know, because I wanted to get enough
of the trail and
I think I think the map on alltrails might be totally
incorrect. I remember seeing at the beginning that this was like
a two and a half mile trail. And I was 1.7 miles in when I hit
that private property sign. Which means it would have been
over three miles on the way back and it just dawned on me just
now that that was probably the end where I was. Meanwhile,
alltrails seems to have it. So it goes much further. So I think
I'm at the point where I'll probably just turn around head
back to the car. There's a second trail I wanted to go to
if I had time, so maybe I'll check that one out. It's time to
head back, Godfrey Let's go this way. Come on. Here we go back
so even though this is off the trail, I'm supposed to be
honest. I mean, it's really an picturesque forest. It's
beautiful
how are you gonna get around that? He's, he's at a loss. He's
tired. There's two big trees falling over the trail. Where to
go what to do. Here, Godfrey, let's go around this way. See
that you just got to use your noggin.
He actually crawled under that. And the other going in the other
direction was kind of hard to watch
we're almost back to where the original trail is. Pick that up
and start heading back to the Jeep.
So it seems to me that if the trail does continue, Godfrey
know, if the trail does continue, it continues across
the creek. And there's no safe way to get across this creek. I
could get across, but I'm not gonna cross with my dog. And
it's the only only thing I can see. That's possible. Godfrey.
No, no. I tell ya. That's mean, dummy. And so I'm just gonna
hang out take some pictures and then we'll get back on the trail
head back. I was hoping maybe I can continue on somehow. Oh.
Godfrey, the lover of nature
I would really like to know what goes through his brain was just
a bit crazy. Alright, got three, let's go. So I say if you choose
to go on this trail, it's not as easy as it says it says easy.
But there's when you start to get close to the falls here. At
least this first set of falls. I didn't make it all the way
according to the map. But there's a really impressive set
of rolling falls right around the one and a half mile marker
so but you're really kind of on the side of a hill walk instead
of a hill. And it's not like a flat trail. So you could pretty
easily if you lose your footing, you know tumble pretty far down.
It's about 50 feet down. I mean, you'd roll down slowly and
probably get stopped by a tree or some logs but just be
forewarned if you choose this trail, when you get farther
down. It is not easy. I would call it moderate. Okay, stop
crying Let's go back in the truck. Let's go so my dog just
volunteered himself into the creek. He's trying to find his
way back. Here he comes
the one positive thing is there's lots of water for my dog
to go to lots of logs for him to chew on
never wants to small ones
All right, that's enough destruction of nature. Godfrey.
You know, we got somewhere to go, right? You're like a kid at
the pool. Come on, Godfrey. Let's go. Hi, so you do know how
to be obedient sometimes.
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just finish up the trail and get back to the Jeep All right,
we're getting back to the Jeep. I think I've mixed the idea of
taking the other trail. He did quite a bit of scrambling up and
down to the falls. But we can always come back because this
other trail is pretty short I believe. And it's already mid
day, so it's gonna start getting hot when you get an old dog,
which I never thought I'd call him old but he's old now. To
take it easy so we can go another day
so until the next hike