Unknown: All right
Kevin Bae: we're walking to Walden creek falls near Atlanta,
Georgia. It just finished raining. So it's gonna be a
little bit muddy out here. But other than that, it's a nice
day. It's June 6 2024. This is the casual hike. And we finally
made it back out on the trail. Is this supposed to be an easy
hike a couple of miles.
elevations are not supposed to be too bad. And the trail is
supposed to be sort of like this, I guess where it's wide.
Looks to me like it's an ATV trail. But I'm trying to see to
take more easy hikes if I could find them. For Godfrey, because
getting older, his right rear leg gets stiff after a while, so
trying to find something that's not so strenuous for him. So
there's a fork in the trail, when that looks like the road
when it looks more like a foot trail. And it's hard to tell on
the alltrails map which way to go. But I want to try the foot
trail, see where we go. So after the first 2030 yards or so looks
like this matches the trail on the alltrails map. When you're
looking for trails that aren't so heavily trafficked, they're
not always well marked. So it takes some effort to figure out
which way to go. This one still is a nice wide trail though.
So I did indeed take the wrong trail. It's always hard to tell
until you get maybe a football field down the way. And then you
see it is way off track. So you gotta go back, take the other
trail. Keep going. I don't know if you can hear that. But it has
decided to rain on us. But it should be passing showers if if
they're going to be like that. So if they're gonna if it's
going to rain, so we're just going to press on, even though
we're at the beginning of the hike. I'm not going to turn
around because we're gonna get soggy and muddy anyway. There's
hope that the downpours aren't too severe. Because sometimes in
Georgia, you get these dang loses. Followed by some
sunshine. You know, you'll get like these really big downpours
for 2030 minutes. It'll be over like nothing ever happened. So
hopefully it won't be that long, but it's already seems like it's
slowing down a bit. It'll keep me cool. This could be a very
short episode of this podcast. Because with this being looks
like an ATV road. It's not a whole lot to see. Maybe until we
get to whatever waterfalls are supposed to be at the end. We'll
find out. I always say that and then I end up with like an hour
of audio anyway
we'll find out I guess. So in the first part of this trail,
it's largely uphill. It's a very gradual incline. And you hit a
crest and then it starts to go down. So it looks like the crest
is about the halfway point. So indeed, this is a short trail.
And just as I thought the rain has moved out, clouds have moved
out and now it's sunny. But this trail is very wooded. So you're
walking under a forest canopy So it's not not hot, it's just you
know, walking through shade most of the time dappled shade. Now
it is nice because the temperature is low, the humidity
is high today, but the temps low. So it makes it more
comfortable for me, and this old dog might be able to hear the
creek down there. I'm not sure if that's where we're headed.
But it's a nicely rapidly running stream. Creek, what have
you. One day, I'll know the difference. This is kind of
cool. There's like a side trail over here. That leads to like a
little part of the stream. And I was looking at earlier with the
little waterfall and such, I don't know where the rest of
this trail goes.
It's cool though. We just kind of come out to take a look at
this. Good right underneath that road. Good spot forgot pretty
cool often. Very nice. This is part of that same side trail. A
little bit further up the stream. That was really cool
rolling waterfall happening. And this guy trying to ruin
everybody's life.
So I just got a ping from the all trails app telling me that
I'm off the trail, even though I'm on the same wide trail I've
been on. So it appears that the side trail that I walked on,
there's not the side trail, that's the actual trail. This is
one of the big beefs I have with what they've done to the
alltrails app. When you're navigating, it doesn't navigate
like a car where I can see the direction in front of me. They
instead they keep the map in this wacky stationary position
overhead with like an overhead view. So it's not always clear
if you got to turn right you got to turn left. It's it's been an
issue for a while now I need to search for a new app. Because
it's just too frustrating when you walk 100 yards and you're
not in the right place, you waste a lot of time and energy.
And if this was not an easy trail, it would it would really
tick me off. Sure enough, sure enough, just after if I just
would have walked a little bit further from where I went on
that side trail, I would have seen the falls that app really,
really something special.
So there are two waterfalls here we're at the base of one, I'm
going to try to go up this hill a little bit more and go up by
that upper falls. And then there's one sort of behind me
and to my left, which we'll go check out as soon as we're done
with this. So it is a little slippery. And steep to get up
this hill. Easier for Godfrey with four legs. But not as easy
for me with two. It's got to be careful. It's not that
difficult. Probably getting down is harder
here's the other waterfall I talked about. And we're gonna
make our way down going this way. So the way down is pretty
slippery, like the way up to the other one, but not as hard and
then it's pretty flat the rest of the way here
somebody's always angry it's hard to fall
and somehow while I was busy looking at the trail at the
falls at the stream, I missed this fire pit didn't know you
could just camp out here
somehow I missed it. So that was really the highlight. That was
it. But you know what, for a short hike on an easy trail, you
get some spectacular waterfalls at the end, which you can get
right up to. You know, if you can scramble a little bit, it
requires a little bit of scrambling to get up there and
down there. But it's worth is very cool. You can get right up
in there. And if you're more adventurous and younger than I
am, you might even try to get go behind the falls of that second
one, the lower falls because there's an area behind there
where you can get behind the falls. Now we just have the
uneventful relatively uninteresting hike back to the
car. At least it's not that long. And it's pretty easy.
Let's go. Let's go Godfrey. And the rain is back through light.
Although sometimes hard to tell, you have to wait a few minutes
to know if it's really raining. Because if the wind blows,
because it's so heavily forested, it sounds like it's
raining, but it's not what it actually is right now. But it's
a good feeling because it's very humid out here. And I'm already
drenched in sweat just from walking in the humidity. So the
rain feels good. Bring it on, especially because we're headed
back so it's not a big deal now. Well, they said to bring it in
the rain. Here it comes. Starting to pour really does
feel pretty good though. All right, where it was pouring, we
hit the crest. So now we're heading back, oh, there's a
little side trail there, whenever that goes. Not gonna
find out today. So not too much farther back. And we'll call it
a hike. But we're almost back to the car. Like, take this moment
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up Godfrey to make sure he doesn't run out there. Thanks
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